On Saturday 20 June 2009 06:55:24 pm Thomas Bächler wrote: > David C. Rankin schrieb: > > Listmates, > > > > Here are some strange conflicts found during an attempted system update. > > Thankfully they are limited to the license package, pear and vi: > > > > (269/269) 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 > > This is a pacman bug where it finds false conflicts when there is a > symlink to a directory in the old package and a directory in the new one > (or the other way around, I don't remember). > I thought the package was supposed to be fixed, but apparently it > wasn't. -Sf licenses. > > > php: /usr/share/pear/.registry/xml_util.reg exists in filesystem > [...] > > No idea about php. > > > vi: /usr/bin/view exists in filesystem > > I had this more than once, no idea what causes it, but you can simply rm > /usr/bin/view and then update. > > > I guess these are left overs from the earlier forced kde-unstable install. > > I don't think that is the case. > > > I'll try an uninstall of the packages and then a reinstall and see how it > > goes... > > That should work, too. > > For the license package, I just uninstalled it, and it reinstalled without issue. For all the pear packages, pacman said nobody owned them and that pear wasn't installed. I just created a temporary directory and moved all the conflicting pear packages to the temp directory (with their original directory structure in place in case I needed to restore them) and then did the system update again and it worked fine. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com