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FS#9806 - System upgrade crashes due to the /usr/share/gitweb/test/Märchen file existence.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ales (patok) - Monday, 10 March 2008, 15:00 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 12:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Installation
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

While the system upgrade, i get following error:

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
checking package integrity...
(343/343) checking for file conflicts [####################################################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
git: /usr/share/gitweb/test/Märchen exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

It seems to be enought to delete the /usr/share/gitweb/test/Märchen file, but someone from Arch Linux team could fix it.

thx, bye.
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 12:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Delete file on your own
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 12:57 GMT
Crashes? Or has a warning.

We can't fix it, it was a bug in makepkg that caused this file to not get recorded in the filelist that has since been fixed. Your deletion strategy is correct.

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