[arch-general] conflict on /usr/bin generated by tigervnc?

[Doug Newgard]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 17:41:28 -0600
Javier via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> On Today's upgrade:
> 
> % pacman -Syu
> :: Synchronizing package databases...
> ...
> Packages (9) ... tigervnc-1.11.0-1 ...
> ...
>  tigervnc-1.11.0-1-x86_64           131.3 MiB  3.51 MiB/s 00:37 [########################################################] 100%
> (9/9) checking keys in keyring                                                                  [########################################################] 100%
> (9/9) checking package integrity                                [########################################################] 100%
> (9/9) loading package files                                     [########################################################] 100%
> (9/9) checking for file conflicts                               [########################################################] 100%
> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> tigervnc: /usr/sbin exists in filesystem (owned by filesystem)
> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
> 
> Usually that get fixed by using "--overwrite /usr/sbin".  But I find it wrong for tigervnc to own "/usr/sbin", so I think in this case tigervnc is not right.  Would this be the case, or it's OK for tigervnc to be the owner and then to overwrite?
> 
> Thanks !
> 

NO! DO NOT OVERWRITE! In fact, never overwrite when the file is owned by
another package, you'll just create more problems. This is a packaging bug, and
this package is currently uninstallable on Arch.

Scimmia
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