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xwing

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Registered: 2013-05-03

Posts: 2

Error when I do pacmatic -Syu for node.js upgrade

Hi I received the following error when trying to do a pacmatic -Syu upgrade this morning. Any ideas how I can resolve this?

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:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                     103.0 KiB  50.7K/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
 extra                   1439.0 KiB  73.8K/s 00:20 [######################] 100%
 community               1989.3 KiB   108K/s 00:18 [######################] 100%
 multilib                 106.9 KiB  72.1K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Packages (9): akonadi-1.10.2-1  fontforge-20120731_b-5  gnutls-3.2.2-2
              ibus-1.5.3-1  linux-3.10.3-1  meld-1.7.4-1
              mkinitcpio-busybox-1.21.1-1  nodejs-0.10.15-1
              virtuoso-base-6.1.7-1

Total Download Size:    63.43 MiB
Total Installed Size:   150.84 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       2.29 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
:: Retrieving packages ...
 linux-3.10.3-1-x86_64     46.2 MiB  94.4K/s 08:22 [######################] 100%
 mkinitcpio-busybox-...   150.7 KiB  47.0K/s 00:03 [######################] 100%
 akonadi-1.10.2-1-x86_64  741.0 KiB  51.8K/s 00:14 [######################] 100%
 fontforge-20120731_...     4.0 MiB  88.2K/s 00:46 [######################] 100%
 gnutls-3.2.2-2-x86_64   1935.5 KiB  51.2K/s 00:38 [######################] 100%
 ibus-1.5.3-1-x86_64      795.9 KiB  60.5K/s 00:13 [######################] 100%
 meld-1.7.4-1-any         464.2 KiB  75.4K/s 00:06 [######################] 100%
 virtuoso-base-6.1.7...     6.2 MiB  37.4K/s 02:49 [######################] 100%
 nodejs-0.10.15-1-x86_64    3.0 MiB   105K/s 00:29 [######################] 100%
(9/9) checking keys in keyring                     [######################] 100%
(9/9) checking package integrity                   [######################] 100%
(9/9) loading package files                        [######################] 100%
(9/9) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
nodejs: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/data/win/large-pdb-shim.cc exists in filesystem
nodejs: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/MSVSUtil.py exists in filesystem
nodejs: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read/rs.js exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
No pacnew files to update.

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Re: Error when I do pacmatic -Syu for node.js upgrade

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130138

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xwing

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Registered: 2013-05-03

Posts: 2

Re: Error when I do pacmatic -Syu for node.js upgrade

Thanks, I managed to fix it, but not exactly in the manner provided at the link. Here's what I did -
1. mv the below offending files into old.<filename>

nodejs: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/data/win/large-pdb-shim.cc exists in filesystem
nodejs: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/gyp/pylib/gyp/MSVSUtil.py exists in filesystem
nodejs: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/read/rs.js exists in filesystem

2. remove the nodejs package with

#pacmatic -R nodejs

3. Ran pacmatic -Syyu nodejs

4. Cleaned-up the temporary old.<filename> with sudo rm
Success!

Hope this helps someone.

zetxx

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From: Sofia :: Bulgaria

Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 97

Re: Error when I do pacmatic -Syu for node.js upgrade

Or just
1) mv /usr/lib/node_modules to /usr/lib/node_modules.old
2) make the upgrade
3) check both directories, if there is difference decide what to do with it.
4) delete.old dir

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