installation errors (duplicate files)

[David Mohr]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Evaggelos
Balaskas<ebalaskas at ebalaskas.gr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i have a question for you all:
>
> i am using subversion r29999 to my (new) (arch)linux box.
>
> I've noticed some errors and i would like some help to understand them.
>
> "/bin/install: will not overwrite just-created"
>
> is some cases like xfce-utils the problem is that xfterm4 is twice in
> installation command
>
>  /bin/install -c xfterm4 xflock4 xfmountdev4 xfterm4 xfbrowser4 startxfce4
> xfhelp4 '/usr/local/bin'
>
> so i 've just fixed scripts/Makefile to this:
>
> scripts = \
>        xflock4 \
>        xfmountdev4
>
> bin_SCRIPTS = \
>        $(scripts) \
>        xfterm4 \
>        xfbrowser4 \
>        startxfce4 \
>        xfhelp4
>
> but in other cases like xfwm4, hide-pressed.png is in many Makefiles and i
> need to write a script for this. So i did (what else i could do?).
>
> But i cant figure out why these errors (duplicates) are produced.
> Any ideas ?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> PS: Sorry for the bad english

Hi,
this sounds like a purely arch linux specific packaging error. Please
ask on an arch linux specific mailing list / forum.

Also keep in mind that svn trunk doesn't always work - you're pretty
much on your own there.

~David