FS#14921 - [licenses] Update collides with files of previous version

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David (alleluia20) - Tuesday, 02 June 2009, 14:13 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 05 August 2009, 03:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

When trying to upgrade to licenses 2.5-1:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/FDL exists in filesystem
licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL exists in filesystem
licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/GPL2/license.txt exists in filesystem
licenses: /usr/share/licenses/common/LGPL exists in filesystem
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Wednesday, 05 August 2009, 03:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed! pacman-3.3.0 saved us :)
Comment by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Tuesday, 02 June 2009, 14:46 GMT
This is because some symlinks in the package have changed. Pacman doesn't handle this.
The simplest solution is:
pacman -R licenses
pacman -S licenses

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