[arch-general] Error when upgrading "reflector"

[SanskritFritz]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Daniel Wallace <daniel.wallace at gatech.edu>wrote:

> On Jul 3, 2012 9:51 AM, "Szu-Han Chen" <sjchen at sjchen.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:28:03AM -0400, Benjamin Boudreau wrote:
> > > Just got when doing a pacman -Syu:
> > >
> > > reflector-2012.7.1-1-any      10.8 KiB   672K/s 00:00
> > > [#############################] 1
> > > ...
> > > (14/14) checking for file conflicts
> > > [#############################] 100%
> > > error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> > > reflector:
> > > /usr/lib/python3.2/site-packages/__pycache__/Reflector.cpython-32.pyc
> > > exists in filesystem
> > >
> > > Should I force the update?
> > >
> > > --Benjamin Boudreau
> >
> > Hey Benjamin,
> >
> > I saw this error too... But since reflector was really a one time
> > thing i just did -Rns. --force shouldn't break anything.
> >
> > --
> > --Szu-Han Chen (sjchen.com)
> > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
>
> Don't force it, it is from running reflector as root, just remove the
> directory
>

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