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FS#39618 - [lz4] /usr/lib/liblz4.so.1 exists in filesystem

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Karol Błażewicz (karol) - Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 02:56 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 04:55 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
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

A conflict due to a forgotten symlink when updating to lz4 116:

$ pacman -Syu
...

(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###########################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
lz4: /usr/lib/liblz4.so.1 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.


$ ls -l /usr/lib/liblz4.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 25 03:50 /usr/lib/liblz4.so.1 -> liblz4.so
$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/liblz4.so
/usr/lib/liblz4.so is owned by lz4 113-1
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 04:55 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  Nothing can be done about an untracked file conflict
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 25 March 2014, 04:54 GMT
Nothing that can be done about this. The previous package has liblz.4.so. That file had "Library soname: [liblz4.so.1]", and as the symlink was not provided, ldconfig created it. So it is an untracked file.

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