[pacman-dev] [PATCH] libalpm: more verbose error messages on file conflicts

[VMiklos]

hi

http://frugalware.org/~vmiklos/patches/libpacman-proposed/verbose_conflicts.diff

  currently:
  $ sudo pacman -S foomatic-filters-ppds --noconfirm
  resolving dependencies... done.
  looking for inter-conflicts... done.
  
  Targets: foomatic-filters-ppds-20051211-1
  
  Total Package Size:   11.5 MB
  
  Beginning upgrade process...
  
  checking package integrity... done.
  ERROR: could not prepare transaction
  error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
  
  expected:
  $ sudo pacman -S foomatic-filters-ppds --noconfirm
  resolving dependencies... done.
  looking for inter-conflicts... done.
  
  Targets: foomatic-filters-ppds-20051211-1
  
  Total Package Size:   11.5 MB
  
  Beginning upgrade process...
  
  checking package integrity... done.
  ERROR: foomatic-filters-ppds: /usr/share/ppd: exists in filesystem
  ERROR: could not prepare transaction
  error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)

the patch mentioned above implements this

udv / greetings,
VMiklos

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