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FS#36260 - [pacman] makepkg -i installs packages without checking for file conflicts

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Alister Hood (Alister) - Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 05:08 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 07:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When I build and install a package with `makepkg -i`, it doesn't check for file conflicts, it just overwrites any existing files.
If I build the package with makepkg and then install it with `pacman -U $pkg` then it checks for file conflicts and refuses to install if there are any.

Additional info:
pacman 4.1.2-1
There don't seem to be any options to makepkg which relate to this, but please let me know if there is a relevant log or something somewhere.
   makepkg.conf (5.6 KiB)
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 07:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 05:36 GMT
Um... no. "makepkg -i" just calls "pacman -U". You are going to need to provide detailed instructions on how to replicate.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 05:37 GMT
In fact, firstly provide output of a "makepkg -i" invocation showing a file being overwritten.
Comment by Alister Hood (Alister) - Wednesday, 24 July 2013, 07:03 GMT
Oh, I see now. Sorry, I was tricked by some subtly faulty PKGBUILDS.

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