On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 07:44 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: <snip> > but in any event, related or not, > dovecot should update without failing due to the existing dovecot.conf <snip> The dovecot.conf file was created by you previously, hence why the update is failing. The new dovecot package provides dovecot.conf (I think because upstream provides it). Pacman gives an error in situations like this, as it well should, since I doubt anybody wants their configs wiped out. As such I don't think this is even a bug.