[arch-general] what is this supposed to mean ?

[Evangelos Foutras]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Trying to do a complete system update, I get:
>
> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
> cups: /etc/cups/printers.conf exists in filesystem
> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
>
> Certainly that file does exist, it probably has to
> in order to make my printer work.
>
> But why
>
> - is this an 'error'
> - does it block the update
>
> ???
>
> And
>
> - What do I have to do to enable the system update ?
>
> And
>
> maybe pacman could be a bit more informative in such cases ?
>
> Ciao,

Please see the front page news. There are instructions regarding the
CUPS update. :)