On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? True, but pacman should probably check to see if the dir is empty, and replace it if it is. I wonder what would happen in the case of: packageA: /foo/bar normal file packageB: /foo/bar/baz normal file With packageA installed, attempting to install packageB. I'd hope it would error out somehow
