[pacman-dev] Fileconflict error...

[Nagy Gabor]

> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu>
> 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 thought this was a regression caused by this fix :
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8156
> 
> But apparently this fix made it into pacman 3.1, and 3.1 didn't have
> the above problem.
> So now I am confused...
> 

I think this is not a regression, but a behaviour change. What did the
"old" pacman do when we have a real symlink<->dir conflict? I mean a
conflict which won't disappear after the upgrade_remove part:
fileconflict003 should pass.

Bye

P.S.: I will create a pactest for this case.