On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Pierre Schmitz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi pacman devs, > > Sometimes it happens that a user has to force an upgrade because pacman > detects an file conflict. > > Some of those cases are caused by the known link vs. regular file/directory > problem. > > Others are caused by the fact that a file wasn't tracked by pacman before. > (e.g. something that was created by an install script before and is part of > the package itself now) > > I am not sure if the first case can even be fixed at all. So what about an > variable I could define in the PKGBUILD which would handle this? > > overwrite=('usr/lib/somefile' 'usr/lib/someotherfile') > > I am not sure if this is completly insane and how difficult to implement this > mgiht be.
The concept is a decent idea, but we'd really have to make sure it's used sparingly. I could forsee this overtaking "conflicts" with AUR packages. Perhaps if this just prompted the user? foobar-1.0-2 wants to overwrite /usr/lib/zomg.so. Allow? [y/N] _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
