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FS#20823 - [dovecot]

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Sunday, 12 September 2010, 10:53 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 12 September 2010, 15:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

[root@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]# pacman -Qi dovecot | grep Version
Version : 1.2.13-1
[root@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]# pacman -Sy dovecot
(...)
Targets (1): dovecot-2.0.2-1
(...)
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#######################################################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
dovecot: /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@dieter-p4sci-arch ~]#

This isn't normal right? Why doesn't the usual pacnew file creation happen?
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 12 September 2010, 15:02 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 12 September 2010, 15:02 GMT
The old dovecot.conf file was created by yourself. It's not under pacman control. New version now ships a default dovecot.conf file and will take it under pacman control. It's safe to -Sf dovecot.

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