[pacman-dev] Fileconflict error...

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 08:37:04 EDT 2008


Nagy Gabor wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've tried -Su again...
> I've just run into a very "hard to fix" error.
> 
> [ngaba at Arch ~]$ LANG=C sudo pacman -Su --ignore mplayer
> ...
> xulrunner: /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9 exists in filesystem
> xulrunner: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9 exists in filesystem
> xulrunner: /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9 exists in filesystem
> xulrunner: /usr/share/idl/xulrunner-1.9 exists in filesystem
> ...
> 
> These are directories... But in the package we have symlinks.
> 

I ran into this problem 10 seconds before receiving your mail :P

Anyway, if we removed xulrunner-1.9 before installing xulrunner-1.9.0.1, 
this error shouldn't happen, because the files in these directories 
apparently all belong to xulrunner.
Otherwise pacman could check for this propriety.




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