FS#7353 - Package extra/perl-exiftool-6.90-1 fails to install

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Paweł Marciniak (pave_m) - Sunday, 03 June 2007, 17:41 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Thursday, 14 June 2007, 01:11 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The upstream package wants to create symlinks 5.8.8 -> current in /usr/lib/perl5 and /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl, which causes the pre-install conflict test to fail.

[root@wookiee perl-exiftool]# pacman -S perl-exiftool
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.

Targets: perl-exiftool-6.90-1

Total Package Size: 1.01 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
checking package integrity... done.
cleaning up... done.
(1/1) checking for file conflicts
[########] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
perl-exiftool: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 exists in filesystem
perl-exiftool: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
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Closed by  Tobias Kieslich (tobias)
Thursday, 14 June 2007, 01:11 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  eric removed the symlinks
Comment by Tobias Kieslich (tobias) - Tuesday, 05 June 2007, 17:19 GMT
Hm, it works for me. I deinstalled and reinstalled it. on three machines ...
Comment by Maciej Płaza (emtec) - Wednesday, 06 June 2007, 17:28 GMT
Same problem for me

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