On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:08 +0100, Damjan Georgievski wrote: > error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files) > test: /test exists in filesystem I think it has to do something with this: [jan@server ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/vte error: cannot determine ownership of a directory The point with directories is that there's no real ownership, as lots of packages can store files in such a location. Now, what would have happened if your directory on the filesystem contained files not belonging to the package that is upgraded?
