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darthaxul

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Registered: 2008-09-24

Posts: 156

file conflicts squirrelmail

...
xorg-server-1.6.1.9...     3.9M 1445.7K/s 00:00:03 [#####################] 100%
checking package integrity...
(71/71) checking for file conflicts                 [#####################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
squirrelmail: /srv/http/squirrelmail/doc/ReleaseNotes exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I had to manually do
rm -r /srv/http/squirrelmail/doc/ReleaseNotes/
now upgrade can happen normally