Description:

When upgrading this morning fontconfig was causing the process to fail. Just to get the whole [testing] thing out of the way, I have never used testing. It seems to be a problem with upgrading from 2.8.0-2. The files seem to be symlinks which aren't owned by any packages, but the files they link to are owned by the older version of fontconfig.

My upgrade works fine if I do:

$ sudo pacman -Syu --ignore fontconfig

Steps to reproduce:

$ sudo pacman -S fontconfig
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): fontconfig-2.10.1-2

Total Installed Size: 3.46 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: -0.21 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking package integrity [#############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [#############################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [#############################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/29-replace-bitmap-fonts.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-fonts-persian.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/69-unifont.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/80-delicious.conf exists in filesystem
fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

$ ls -alh /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 8 13:40 /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf -> ../conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf


$ pacman -Qo /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf
error: No package owns /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf


$ pacman -Qo /etc/fonts/conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/90-synthetic.conf is owned by fontconfig 2.8.0-2