[pacman-dev] Package upgrade issues: False file conflicts

Nagy Gabor ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu
Thu Sep 18 08:07:31 EDT 2008


> The problem seems to be that in the old package
> /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm is a symlink to another directory which
> contains these files. In the new package, this symlink is replaced by a
> directory. pacman thinks that there are file conflicts, while there are
> none. I cannot find a viable workaround for this.

Thanks for the report, this is a known issue:  
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-July/012465.html
We also have pactests for this as a reminder.

Bye

P.S.: This is quite difficult to fix...

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