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awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

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[SOLVED] awl: file exists in filesystem

I tried upgrading my davical installation which depends on awl.

When I do:

$ yaourt awl

to upgrade awl, I get the following errors:

...
awl: /usr/share/awl/docs/api/media/lib/classTree.js exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/docs/api/media/stylesheet.css exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/docs/api/packages.html exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/docs/api/phpdoc.ini exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/docs/api/todolist.html exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/inc/AWLUtilities.php exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/inc/AWLUtilities.php.in exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/inc/AuthPlugin.php exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/inc/AuthPlugins.php exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/inc/AwlDBDialect.php exists in filesystem
awl: /usr/share/awl/inc/AwlDatabase.php exists in filesystem
...

My guess is I have to account for these files somehow in the PKGBUILD or .install file, but how? Do I have to use the pre_/post_upgrade functions somehow?

I don't really want to remove the package to install it again in a newer version, that is just ugly...

Thanks for your help!

PS: I am actually the maintainer of the davical PKGBUILD, but it is my first time upgrading, so I would like to fix this.

Last edited by awayand (2011-09-29 09:05:28)

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Re: [SOLVED] awl: file exists in filesystem

If you're lucky those files are already owned by another package, check which, see if you can dump it, if it's a manual install, you're pretty much on your own finding out what got them there.

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] awl: file exists in filesystem

Basically, follow https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373

awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

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Re: [SOLVED] awl: file exists in filesystem

thanks! I was actually able to fix my issue with your pointers.