Pacman -Syu error shadow-4.0.4.1-3 upgrade

Question

I recently got an arror for the first time using pacman.  After executing pacman -Syu i get..
Targets: shadow-4.0.4.1-3 coreutils-5.2.1-2
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  /bin/su: exists in filesystem
  /etc/pam.d/su: exists in filesystem
  /usr/man/man1/su.1.gz: exists in filesystem
After doing a pacman -Qo to each path the error refers to, I know that shadow 4.0.4.1-2  is causing the conflicts. Can someone help me find a way to correct this? I don't want to force a upgrade without knowing it won't cause problems.

Answer 1

/bin/su moves to Coreutils       posted by Judd
July 02, 2004
Hi all,
When you next --sysupgrade, you'll get a "file conflict" warning about the su binary and its corresponding manpage. This is because Arch now uses the su binary from the coreutils package instead of the one from the shadow package, as it is more functional.
You can safely force this upgrade by running pacman -Suf. When the upgrade is complete, make sure you still have a /bin/su binary before exiting your root shell. Just in case.
Fine