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FS#11105 - xulrunner 1.9.0.1-2 says that files exist

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ravi (ravster) - Sunday, 03 August 2008, 19:43 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 03 August 2008, 20:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
I get the following error when installing xulrunner1.9.0.1-2
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(2/2) checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
xulrunner: /usr/include/xulrunner-1.9 exists in filesystem
xulrunner: /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9 exists in filesystem
xulrunner: /usr/lib/xulrunner-devel-1.9 exists in filesystem
xulrunner: /usr/share/idl/xulrunner-1.9 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Additional info:
* package version(s)
xulrunner-1.9.0.1-2
pacman-3.2.0-1 (from testing)

* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Sunday, 03 August 2008, 20:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 03 August 2008, 19:45 GMT
Somehow files appeared in these directories on your system, so pacman can't remove the directory and replace it with symlinks. We can't fix this. You should remove packages that own files in those directories, remove xulrunner, remove any leftover files in these directories and upgrade xulrunner.
Comment by Ravi (ravster) - Sunday, 03 August 2008, 20:33 GMT
Solved. There must have been something wierd going on, because 'pacman -Qo' said that the files in there belonged to 'xulrunner-1.9-1'. I did a 'pacman -Rd' and then the upgrade worked without a hitch.
I still don't know how those files were formed, wierd indeed.
Thanks for your help.

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