2008/9/18 Nagy Gabor <[email protected]>:
> Idézet Nagy Gabor <[email protected]>:
>
>>> The problem seems to be that in the old package
>>> /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm is a symlink to another directory which
>>> contains these files. In the new package, this symlink is replaced by a
>>> directory. pacman thinks that there are file conflicts, while there are
>>> none. I cannot find a viable workaround for this.
>>
>
> Workaround: -Uf.
>
>> Thanks for the report, this is a known issue:
>> http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-July/012465.html
>> We also have pactests for this as a reminder.
>
> Well, I was wrong, this is not exactly the same case. This is a bit easier.
> The problem is, that pacman doesn't resolve symlinks, maybe we should do
> some realpath stuff here (efficiency?).
>
>

So what about fixing just this "real life" case, which could happen
again in the future?

Attachment: 0001-Fix-klibc-conflict-case.patch
Description: application/mbox

_______________________________________________
pacman-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev

Reply via email to