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MaxT

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2014-04-06

Posts: 19

Conflicting files during upgrade: cmark-gfm and cmark in conflict

Hi

this is the result of my upgrade attempt:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
cmark-gfm: /usr/include/cmark.h exists in filesystem (owned by cmark)
cmark-gfm: /usr/include/cmark_export.h exists in filesystem (owned by cmark)
cmark-gfm: /usr/include/cmark_version.h exists in filesystem (owned by cmark)

haskell-cmark-gfm seems to have added a dependency on cmark-gfm, containing the conflicting files.

cmark is required by haskell-cmark, which however seems to be no longer available. Im don't know, why it was installed:

pacman -Qi haskell-cmark
Name            : haskell-cmark
Version         : 0.5.6-9
Description     : Fast, accurate CommonMark (Markdown) parser and renderer
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://github.com/jgm/commonmark-hs
Licenses        : custom:BSD3
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : ghc-libs  cmark
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 952.00 KiB
Packager        : Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Fri 01 Jun 2018 07:32:53 PM CEST
Install Date    : Tue 05 Jun 2018 04:53:08 PM CEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

I am not sure, what my options are at this point?

Thanks and cheers,

Max

hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 330

Re: Conflicting files during upgrade: cmark-gfm and cmark in conflict

cmark is required by haskell-cmark, which however seems to be no longer available. Im don't know, why it was installed:

Can't you find anything in your pacman.log?

ngld

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Registered: 2015-01-18

Posts: 1

Re: Conflicting files during upgrade: cmark-gfm and cmark in conflict

pandoc depended on haskell-cmark in the past and now requires haskell-cmark-gfm instead.My guess is that cmark was either renamed or replaced by cmark-gfm.

MaxT

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2014-04-06

Posts: 19

Re: Conflicting files during upgrade: cmark-gfm and cmark in conflict

Thanks for your hints.

Can't you find anything in your pacman.log?

[2016-04-22 13:58] [ALPM] installed cmark (0.25.2-1)
[2016-04-22 13:58] [ALPM] upgraded pandoc (1.16.0.1-1 -> 1.17.0.3-7)

I guess that means that is was installed as a dependency of pandoc. But pandoc no longer depends on it. Should pacman not remove it in this case?

pandoc depended on haskell-cmark in the past and now requires haskell-cmark-gfm instead.My guess is that cmark was either renamed or replaced by cmark-gfm.

It seems like you are right. I thought pacman would resolve this in its own though.

Again, what is the best option? Can I just savely remove the cmark package?

jab2870

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Registered: 2017-03-20

Posts: 20

Re: Conflicting files during upgrade: cmark-gfm and cmark in conflict

I ran

$ sudo pacman -Rns haskell-cmark

This removed haskell-cmark and cmark.

Then

$ sudo pacman -S haskell-cmark-gfm

Which re-installed the gfm versions.

This has sorted it for me.

mxfm

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Registered: 2015-10-23

Posts: 163

Re: Conflicting files during upgrade: cmark-gfm and cmark in conflict

There is also issue FS#58280. It was filed in April, so this should have been known already.

MaxT

Member

From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2014-04-06

Posts: 19

Re: Conflicting files during upgrade: cmark-gfm and cmark in conflict

I ran

$ sudo pacman -Rns haskell-cmark

This removed haskell-cmark and cmark.

Then

$ sudo pacman -S haskell-cmark-gfm

Which re-installed the gfm versions.

This has sorted it for me.

This worked fine, thanks for the help.

There is also issue FS#58280. It was filed in April, so this should have been known already.

The upstream tickes is just a few hours old. So this will probably get fixed soon.

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

Posts: 4,097

Re: Conflicting files during upgrade: cmark-gfm and cmark in conflict

Upstream just released a new version fixing the conflict, so once that gets packaged the packages should be able to be installed together.

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