FS#79125 - [texlive-doc] 2023.66594-17 file conflicts with dvisvgm and others

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Alberto Jiménez Ruiz (albjimrui) - Monday, 17 July 2023, 09:37 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Monday, 17 July 2023, 22:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Caleb Maclennan (alerque)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 10
Private No

Details

Description:

Can't install both texlive-doc and dvisvgm with pacman.

Additional info:
* package version(s): texlive-doc 2023.66594-17
* dvisvgm 3.1-2

Steps to reproduce:
* After updating with "pacman -Syu", the package texlive-doc-2023.66594-17 could not be installed due to conflicts with dvisvgm 3.1-2.
* The conflicting file according to pacman is "/usr/share/man/man1/dvisvgm.1.gz", which is already provided by dvisvgm
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Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Monday, 17 July 2023, 22:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  texlive-doc 2023.66594-18
Comment by Stefan Husmann (stefanhusmann) - Monday, 17 July 2023, 10:24 GMT
Also asymptote-2.86-2 and psutils-2.10-1 share files with texlive-doc.
Comment by Christian Cornelssen (ccorn) - Monday, 17 July 2023, 16:17 GMT
Here is an ad-hoc script to check for file conflicts.

```
#! /bin/bash
# Needs a recent run of: sudo pacman -Fy
package=texlive-doc
export LANG=C
IFS=$'\n'
man_info_files=($(pacman -Flq $package | \
grep -E '/(man|info)/.*[^/]$'))
man_info_files=(${man_info_files[@]/#//}) # prepend /
pacman -F "${man_info_files[@]}" | \
awk "\$5 !~ /\/$package\$/"
```

Here is its output:

```
usr/share/info/asy-faq.info.gz is owned by extra/asymptote 2.86-2
usr/share/man/man1/asy.1.gz is owned by extra/asymptote 2.86-2
usr/share/man/man1/dvisvgm.1.gz is owned by extra/dvisvgm 3.1-2
usr/share/man/man1/epsffit.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/extractres.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/git-latexdiff.1.gz is owned by extra/git-latexdiff 1.6.0-1
usr/share/man/man1/includeres.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/psbook.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/psjoin.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/psnup.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/psresize.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/psselect.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/pstops.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/psutils.1.gz is owned by extra/psutils 2.10-1
usr/share/man/man1/t1ascii.1.gz is owned by extra/t1utils 1.42-2
usr/share/man/man1/t1asm.1.gz is owned by extra/t1utils 1.42-2
usr/share/man/man1/t1binary.1.gz is owned by extra/t1utils 1.42-2
usr/share/man/man1/t1disasm.1.gz is owned by extra/t1utils 1.42-2
usr/share/man/man1/t1mac.1.gz is owned by extra/t1utils 1.42-2
usr/share/man/man1/t1unmac.1.gz is owned by extra/t1utils 1.42-2
```
Comment by Christian Cornelssen (ccorn) - Monday, 17 July 2023, 17:10 GMT
Furthermore, there are now lots of man1 files where pacman -F cannot find an associated executable in any package.
The most hilarious one is /usr/share/man/man1/Makefile.gz, which should not be there, I guess.

And there are *.man1.pdf* versions which are probably just redundant.
Their automatic compression to .gz makes no sense.
I think those should be removed as well.
Comment by Christian Cornelssen (ccorn) - Monday, 17 July 2023, 17:36 GMT
You may want to consider leaving the {man,info} directories in their original texmf subtree and provide /etc/profile.d/texlive-doc.{c,}sh which augment MANPATH and INFOPATH.
This would be a robust way to avoid hard file conflicts now and in the future.

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