On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:23:35 +0100 Lars Madson <rwx700@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > My system has two hard drive, one SSD with / and /home/user on two > partitions and a HDD mounted on /opt and /var. > > The HDD failed, and the system works with only the SSD as it was installed > like this and then extended to the HDD. > > Only 3 or 4 weeks of update make a difference between the content of /var > and /opt on the SSD and the HDD. > > Now I'm performing an upgrade of the whole system to get back to normal but > all files in /usr are making conflict as the /opt and /var are older and > trying to install files that are already there. > > So I could - but it seems really painful - rename all the conflicting files > (they are a lot), if anyone as an idea how to automatize this. Or maybe I > would love some kind of option in pacman that would overwrite or ignore > those conflicts, I know that's against how pacman is build so I'm asking > here. > > Hope I make sens. > > thx > Laurent You could use the -f option but I wonder if this is more troublesome and time-consuming than a simple reinstall. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D
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