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FS#49901 - [certbot] error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files: "/var/log")
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Community Packages
Opened by Eric Wang (enihcam) - Friday, 01 July 2016, 07:31 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 03 July 2016, 03:10 GMT
Opened by Eric Wang (enihcam) - Friday, 01 July 2016, 07:31 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Sunday, 03 July 2016, 03:10 GMT
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[code] nanw@archnet /var/log $ yaourt -S certbot -v Root : / Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf DB Path : /var/lib/pacman/ Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ Hook Dirs : /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/ /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck Log File : /var/log/pacman.log GPG Dir : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/ Targets : community/certbot resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (34) dialog-1:1.3_20160424-1 python2-acme-0.8.1-1 python2-cffi-1.7.0-1 python2-chardet-2.3.0-2 python2-configargparse-0.10.0-1 python2-configobj-5.0.6-2 python2-cryptography-1.4-1 python2-enum34-1.1.6-1 python2-funcsigs-1.0.2-1 python2-idna-2.1-1 python2-ipaddress-1.0.16-1 python2-mock-2.0.0-1 python2-ndg-httpsclient-0.4.1-1 python2-packaging-16.7-1 python2-parsedatetime-2.1-1 python2-pbr-1.10.0-1 python2-ply-3.8-1 python2-psutil-4.2.0-1 python2-pyasn1-0.1.9-1 python2-pycparser-2.14-2 python2-pyopenssl-16.0.0-1 python2-pyparsing-2.1.5-1 python2-pyrfc3339-1.0-1 python2-pythondialog-3.4.0-1 python2-pytz-2016.4-1 python2-requests-2.10.0-1 python2-setuptools-1:23.1.0-1 python2-six-1.10.0-1 python2-urllib3-1.16-1 python2-werkzeug-0.11.10-1 python2-zope-component-4.2.2-1 python2-zope-event-4.2.0-1 python2-zope-interface-4.2.0-1 certbot-0.8.1-1 Total Installed Size: 25.88 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] (34/34) checking keys in keyring [##################################] 100% (34/34) checking package integrity [##################################] 100% (34/34) loading package files [##################################] 100% (34/34) checking for file conflicts [##################################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) certbot: /var/log exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. [/code] Additional info: * package version(s) * config and/or log files etc. Steps to reproduce: |
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Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) -
Friday, 01 July 2016, 13:39 GMT
Have you replaced the /var/log/ dir with a symlink or something?
Comment by Eric Wang (enihcam) -
Sunday, 03 July 2016, 02:38 GMT
yes, /var/log is a symlink. However it's not an excuse of the failure, right? I have other packages warn about this, but none of them block the installation. :)
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) -
Sunday, 03 July 2016, 03:10 GMT
Yeah, you can't replace managed dirs with symlinks. Use bind mounts.