[arch-general] virt-install conflicting files

[Ralf Mardorf]

Updating from virt-install 1.3.2-3 to 1.3.2-4 didn't work.
Several files owned by no package cause a conflict.
Since I never build anything virt related myself and Arch always was
up-to-date, there must have been an issue with an update, that didn't
removed those files.

Who might be the culprit, pacman? Or virt-install from community?

I didn't report a bug, since assumed the culprit is virt-install, than
likely an old package version and maybe the culprit is something else.

The issue is solved, but I still don't know the cause for the issue:

$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/virt-manager/virtcli/__init__.pyc
error: No package owns /usr/share/virt-manager/virtcli/__init__.pyc

$ ls -l /usr/share/virt-manager/virtcli/__init__.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 Oct  5 16:50 /usr/share/virt-manager/virtcli/__init__.pyc

$ sudo pacman -S virt-install virt-manager 
[snip]
Packages (2) virt-install-1.3.2-4  virt-manager-1.3.2-4
[snip]
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
virt-install: /usr/share/virt-manager/virtcli/__init__.pyc exists in filesystem
[snip]
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

$ sudo pacman -Q virt-install virt-manager 
virt-install 1.3.2-3
virt-manager 1.3.2-3

$ sudo rm -r /usr/share/virt-manager/

$ sudo pacman -S virt-install virt-manager 
[snip]
warning: could not get file information for usr/share/virt-manager/
[snip]

$ sudo pacman -S virt-install virt-manager 
warning: virt-install-1.3.2-4 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: virt-manager-1.3.2-4 is up to date -- reinstalling
[snip]
Packages (2) virt-install-1.3.2-4  virt-manager-1.3.2-4
[snip, no warning, no error]

Regards,
Ralf