Pacman force - php conflicts

passbe · 2009-07-02 09:10:22

I do a lot of work with PHP and the last thing i need atm is for PHP to stop working. I have some conflicts with pacman updating, if someone could tell me how "harmful" / "harmless" using the --force option in pacman would be, in relation to the following conflicts.

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (31): apr-1.3.5-1  readline-6.0.00-1  unixodbc-2.2.14-2  apr-util-1.3.7-1  bash-4.0.024-1  device-mapper-1.02.32-2  
              xulrunner-1.9.1-1  firefox-3.5-1  libgcrypt-1.4.4-2  gnutls-2.8.1-1  sqlite3-3.6.15-2  heimdal-1.2.1-5  inetutils-1.6-4  
              jack-audio-connection-kit-0.116.2-2  libthai-0.1.12-1  libxml2-2.7.3-2  liferea-1.4.28-2  lua-5.1.4-4  lvm2-2.02.47-2  
              mysql-clients-5.1.35-2  mysql-5.1.35-2  cairo-1.8.8-1  pango-1.24.4-1  php-5.2.10-1  postgresql-libs-8.3.7-2  python-2.6.2-3  
              qt-4.5.2-1  ruby-1.8.7_p173-2  smbclient-3.3.6-2  wpa_supplicant-0.6.9-2  xz-utils-4.999.8beta-4  

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   431.65 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity...
(31/31) checking for file conflicts                 [#################################################################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
php: /usr/share/pear/.registry/xml_util.reg exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/XML/Util.php exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/doc/PEAR/LICENSE exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/doc/XML_Util/examples/example.php exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/doc/XML_Util/examples/example2.php exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/AllTests.php exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_apiVersion.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_attributesToString.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_collapseEmptyTags.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_createCDataSection.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_createComment.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_createEndElement.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_createStartElement.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_createTag.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_createTagFromArray.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_getDocTypeDeclaration.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_getXmlDeclaration.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_isValidName.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_raiseError.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_replaceEntities.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_reverseEntities.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBasic_splitQualifiedName.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBug_4950.phpt exists in filesystem
php: /usr/share/pear/test/XML_Util/tests/testBug_5392.phpt exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

arkham · 2009-07-02 10:35:24

In my opinion, it seems pretty harmless to run pacman -Sf php
Although I have to remind you that everytime you upgrade, there is the risk of something screwing up

Allan · 2009-07-02 10:44:55

First check if any package owns the conflicting files (pacman -Qo <file>). If not, then a "pacman -Sf php" is fine. NEVER do "pacman -Syuf", NEVER!

Pierre · 2009-07-02 11:07:57

Maybe I should really remove pear from php; using another package manager next to pacman is not a good idea. pacman -Sf php might also break things if the files are of different version.

Last edited by Pierre (2009-07-02 11:09:30)

passbe · 2009-07-02 11:35:59

@allan, exactly how am i checking if the package owns the conflicting files. ie i run.

sudo pacman -Qo /usr/bin/php
/usr/bin/php is owned by php 5.2.9-3

i know the errors are from php/pear. Sorry if that sounds vauge im trying to understand pacman a bit better so when i run into something like this in the future i will be comfortable updating with a force.

@everyone, i do understand that a lot of updates do break functionality, im pretty use to that, what im not used to is big ugly errors coming out of pacman

Allan · 2009-07-02 11:43:39

You will be wanting to check the conflicts e.g.

php: /usr/share/pear/.registry/xml_util.reg exists in filesystem

so

pacman -Qo /usr/share/pear/.registry/xml_util.reg

If no packages own that, then it is safe to overwrite...

passbe · 2009-07-02 11:56:16

ahhh ok. that makes sense, well ive updated and all looks fine. Thanks guys.

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#1 2009-07-02 09:10:22

Pacman force - php conflicts

#2 2009-07-02 10:35:24

Re: Pacman force - php conflicts

#3 2009-07-02 10:44:55

Re: Pacman force - php conflicts

#4 2009-07-02 11:07:57

Re: Pacman force - php conflicts

#5 2009-07-02 11:35:59

Re: Pacman force - php conflicts

#6 2009-07-02 11:43:39

Re: Pacman force - php conflicts

#7 2009-07-02 11:56:16

Re: Pacman force - php conflicts

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