FS#11667 - New whois conficts with expect

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sigmund Lahn (gnud) - Monday, 06 October 2008, 18:56 GMT
Last edited by Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa) - Wednesday, 08 October 2008, 01:14 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 5
Private No

Details

Description:
For some reason, the build of whois contains a /usr/bin/mkpasswd.
So does extra/expect, required by freenx. Collision ensues.


Additional info:
* whois 4.7.28-1 (the conflicting package)
* expect 5.44.1.4-1 (the installed package)
* Pacman output:
bash-3.2# pacman -S whois
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): whois-4.7.28-1

Total Download Size: 0,00 MB
Total Installed Size: 0,08 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###########################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
whois: /usr/bin/mkpasswd exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.


Steps to reproduce:
Install either expect or whois
Try to install the other package.
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Closed by  Douglas Soares de Andrade (dsa)
Wednesday, 08 October 2008, 01:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Brian (spiffytech) - Tuesday, 07 October 2008, 18:36 GMT
I can confirm this bug. I have both freenx and the old version of whois (4.7.24-1) installed together; when I try to update whois to the latest version in the repo I get the "exists in filesystem" error.
Comment by Loui Chang (louipc) - Wednesday, 08 October 2008, 00:13 GMT
Conflict exists here too.

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