On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Zé Ninguém<meugninez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there. > I am having some file conflicts when upgrading the licenses package, and I > don't understand why? > Here is the error: > > resolving dependencies... > looking for inter-conflicts... > > Targets (1): licenses-2.5-1 > > Total Download Size: 0.00 MB > Total Installed Size: 0.46 MB > > Proceed with installation? [Y/n] > checking package integrity... > (1/1) checking for file conflicts > [####################################################################################################] > 100% > error: could not prepare transaction > error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) > licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/FDL exists in filesystem > licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL exists in filesystem > licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/license.txt exists in filesystem > licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/LGPL exists in filesystem > Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. > > But the files it is complaining about belong to "licenses" already. > > /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/license.txt is owned by licenses 2.4-1 > > So my question is, why are this errors hapening? I need to rebuild the package to make pacman happy- it can't be completely sure about the symlink structure unfortunately, so I'm going to organize it like it was before. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14921 -Dan
