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Hi all,
I did pacman -Syu this morning and when trying to upgrade scrollkeeper it gave me a conflict:
scrollkeeper-0.3.12-4.pk [####################################] 100% | 210K
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
/var/log/scrollkeeper.log: exists in filesystemAs /var/log/scrollkeeper.log just contains one line concerning its installation time, I suppose it's quite safe to delete it, but there should still be a better way to avoid this conflict.
Jan
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I've had many similar problems, maybe it would be a feature for new versions of pacman, to avoid this problems by some way...
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The problem exists because the old package had the scrollkeeper log file in /usr/var/log/scrollkeeper.log and the new one is in /var/log/scrollkeeper.log. The problem is that /usr/var is a symlink to /var but pacman doesn't know that. It thinks that /var/log/scrollkeeper.log is some errant file that it doesn't know what to do with. Everyone who had scrollkeeper installed and is upgrading will have this problem.
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there is also the trusty (though not always desirable) force option:
pacman -Sf scrollkeeper
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I just renamed scrollkeeper.log to scrollkeeper.log.old
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