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f4hy

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From: Pittsburgh Pa

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 55

Trouble getting the new pacman --overwrite to work

I tried to upgrade and found that pyhton-html5lib was failing to update due to messages like

python-html5lib: /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/html5lib/treewalkers/genshi.py exists in filesystem

So great, I know pacman has a new option. I want to overwrite those files so I am trying

sudo pacman -Sy python-pip --overwrite=/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/html5lib/treewalkers/*

but then I get the exact same messages. I have tried different formats of how to put in the globbed files, but nothing seems to work.

Could someone give an example of how the new pacman --overwrite works?

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,280

Re: Trouble getting the new pacman --overwrite to work

you should specify the path without a leading slash.

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N_BaH

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Registered: 2015-12-30

Posts: 84

Re: Trouble getting the new pacman --overwrite to work

man pacman shows no equal sign :

--overwrite <glob>

f4hy

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From: Pittsburgh Pa

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 55

Re: Trouble getting the new pacman --overwrite to work

you should specify the path without a leading slash.

Thank you. It was the leading slash that was causing everything I tried not to work. Odd that it should be without the leading slash, but ok. Thanks!

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,280

Re: Trouble getting the new pacman --overwrite to work

Odd that it should be without the leading slash, but ok. Thanks!

The option works similar to NoUpgrade and NoExtract in pacman.conf, only a single phrase is missing in the manpage that is there for those options.

NoUpgrade = file ...
           All files listed with a NoUpgrade directive will never be touched
           during a package install/upgrade, and the new files will be
           installed with a .pacnew extension. These files refer to files in
           the package archive, so do not include the leading slash (the
           RootDir) when specifying them. Shell-style glob patterns are
           allowed. It is possible to invert matches by prepending a file with
           an exclamation mark. Inverted files will result in previously
           blacklisted files being whitelisted again. Subsequent matches will
           override previous ones. A leading literal exclamation mark or
           backslash needs to be escaped.

Last edited by progandy (2018-06-02 00:42:58)

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Trouble getting the new pacman --overwrite to work

Was there a typo in your first post: the conflict was with python-html5lib, but you used --overwrite with python-pip.

Also, please be sure to do a `pacman -Su` to complete any other upgrades and in the future avoid ever using -Sy without also using 'u'.

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eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: Trouble getting the new pacman --overwrite to work

Well... https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/p … 22515.html

There's no especial reason to force the / here.

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