FS#39726 - unable to update freeimage

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by matanya (matanyam) - Thursday, 03 April 2014, 06:14 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 03 April 2014, 07:53 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Sven-Hendrik Haase (Svenstaro)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Unable to freeimage to version 3.16.0.-2

Additional info:
* package version(s) - 3.16.0-2


Steps to reproduce:

$sudo pacman -Suy
[sudo] password for matanya:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra 1564.8 KiB 2.39M/s 00:01 [#############################################################################] 100%
community 2.1 MiB 2.39M/s 00:01 [#############################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (2): freeimage-3.16.0-2 inxi-2.1.15-1

Total Download Size: 0.10 MiB
Total Installed Size: 9.18 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages ...
inxi-2.1.15-1-any 102.8 KiB 1270K/s 00:00 [#############################################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking keys in keyring [#############################################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity [#############################################################################] 100%
(2/2) loading package files [#############################################################################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts [#############################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
freeimage: /usr/lib/libfreeimageplus.so.3 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 03 April 2014, 07:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  That file is owned by no package. You will need to manually remove it.
Comment by matanya (matanyam) - Thursday, 03 April 2014, 06:42 GMT
The faulty change is the soft link to the so file, introduced here: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/freeimage&id=4834ffa94c3aa9360d83f0507ed5c8a7e6d04473

need to remove the file before linking the new one.

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