[solved]system won't upgrade (files exist in the filesystem)

Question

Everytime I try to upgrade I get this message
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/exporterutils.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/exporterutils.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/infos.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/infos.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/policies.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/policies.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/pyste.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/pyste.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/settings.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/settings.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/utils.py exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Pyste/utils.pyc exists in filesystem
boost: /usr/share/licenses/boost/LICENSE_1_0.txt exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded."
The list itself is a lot ,lot longer,this is just a tiny snapshot.
I had a look around on the forums and there were people having the same" problem.
Is there a way around this other than "pacman -Qo" everything?
Last edited by Romanrp (2010-01-17 20:41:17)

Answer 1

For future reference:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56373
You can break your system severely by forcing upgrades. If you didn't already (or didn't read the output when upgrading), you may want to go through /var/log/pacman.log and look to see if there's any information that's you missed about these particular upgrades before you restart your system.