David C. Rankin wrote:
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:
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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.
Already done.
man pacman.conf:
UseDelta
Download delta files instead of complete packages if possible.
Requires the xdelta program to be installed.
