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jt512

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Registered: 2009-02-19

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[Solved] Dovecot upgrade failed due to file conflicts

yaourt -Syu failed this morning do to file conflicts with dovecot.  Here is the output:

:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: iscan: local (2.15.0.3-1) is newer than archlinuxfr (2.8.0-3)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (10): libcups-1.3.10-1  cups-1.3.10-1  libmysqlclient-5.1.34-1  dovecot-1.1.14-1  
              ffmpegthumbnailer-1.5.0-1  mysql-clients-5.1.34-1  mysql-5.1.34-1  recordproto-1.13.2-2  
              renderproto-0.9.3-2  subversion-1.6.1-3  

Total Download Size:    51.88 MB
Total Installed Size:   148.31 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 libcups-1.3.10-1-x86_64  185.2K  106.8K/s 00:00:02 [#########################################################] 100%
 cups-1.3.10-1-x86_64       3.0M  121.0K/s 00:00:26 [#########################################################] 100%
 libmysqlclient-5.1....    12.2M  120.9K/s 00:01:44 [#########################################################] 100%
 dovecot-1.1.14-1-x86_64    3.2M  120.2K/s 00:00:28 [#########################################################] 100%
 mysql-clients-5.1.3...   278.2K  122.2K/s 00:00:02 [#########################################################] 100%
 mysql-5.1.34-1-x86_64     25.9M  122.4K/s 00:03:36 [#########################################################] 100%
 recordproto-1.13.2-...     4.0K  226.0K/s 00:00:00 [#########################################################] 100%
 renderproto-0.9.3-2...    16.7K   86.4K/s 00:00:00 [#########################################################] 100%
 subversion-1.6.1-3-...     6.9M  118.3K/s 00:01:00 [#########################################################] 100%
:: Retrieving packages from community...
 ffmpegthumbnailer-1...    64.9K  119.1K/s 00:00:01 [#########################################################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(10/10) checking for file conflicts                 [#########################################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
dovecot: /usr/lib/dovecot/imap exists in filesystem
dovecot: /usr/lib/dovecot/pop3 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Should I remove /usr/lib/dovecot/imap and /usr/libdovecot/pop3 and continue the upgrade, or is there a problem with a package?

Jay

Last edited by jt512 (2009-04-18 17:32:31)

Abelian

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Registered: 2008-04-23

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Re: [Solved] Dovecot upgrade failed due to file conflicts

http://www.archlinux.org/news/444/

yaourt -Syuf should do it

jt512

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Registered: 2009-02-19

Posts: 262

Re: [Solved] Dovecot upgrade failed due to file conflicts

Thanks.  I searched the forums, but didn't think to check the news.

Jay

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Re: [Solved] Dovecot upgrade failed due to file conflicts

http://www.archlinux.org/news/444/

yaourt -Syuf should do it

next time don't do it again.
just pacman -Sf package and then pacman -Su

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jt512

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Registered: 2009-02-19

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Re: [Solved] Dovecot upgrade failed due to file conflicts

Actually, what I did was:

$ yaourt -Su --ignore dovecot
$ yaourt -Sf dovecot