Issue updating Arch Linux on B3 (ca-certificates-utils)

[sakaki]

Hi,

if you are running Arch on your B3, you may have experienced an issue when attempting to update recently:

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[root@archb3 ~]# pacman -Syu
...
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
ca-certificates-utils: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

This is a known issue: a symlink which used to be generated post-install has been moved into the package proper. The fix, per this note, is straightforward:

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[root@archb3 ~]# pacman -Syuw                           # download packages
[root@archb3 ~]# rm /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt  # remove conflicting file
[root@archb3 ~]# pacman -Su                             # perform upgrade

Note that if you simply delete the symlink without first downloading the packages, you may be unable to download them subsequently, so the order above is important.

Best, sakaki