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FS#12060 - msmtp-1.4.16-1 fails to upgrade

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Hao (qft) - Sunday, 09 November 2008, 09:26 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 02:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Description:
Upgrading to the new version of msmtp fails. Pacman reports the following error:

checking for file conflicts [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
msmtp: /usr/share/info/dir exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.


Additional info:
I have a old version of msmtp-1.4.15-2 installed already.


Steps to reproduce:
Do a full system upgrade, pacman -Syu
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Wednesday, 12 November 2008, 02:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by P.H. (Vain) - Sunday, 09 November 2008, 12:28 GMT
Yap, same over here.

Building the package with "options=(!docs)" helps, though.
Comment by Ivy Foster (joyfulgirl) - Monday, 10 November 2008, 06:01 GMT
If you're going to install an info file, I'd suggest removing the file /usr/share/info/dir from your package (because it's used by every package that uses info and so shouldn't be overwritten by any given package) and creating an msmtp.install file that runs install-info(1) when installing and install-info --remove when uninstalling.

Thanks!

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