I just tried applying the 2024-07-01 stable update. Everything succeeded except for the riscv64-elf-newlib package. Installation fails with the following error message:
Checking file conflicts...
Failed to commit transaction:
conflicting files:
- riscv64-elf-newlib: /usr/share/info/porting.info.gz already exists in filesystem (owned by arm-none-eabi-newlib)
From my understanding, arm-none-eabi-newlib contains the file /usr/share/info/porting.info.gz. The arm-none-eabi-newlib package was not part of this stable update. The previous version of riscv64-elf-newlib (4.1.0-3) does not contain this file. My current version of arm-none-eabi-newlib (4.4.0.20231231-1) does.
I think this is a packaging issue with the newest versions of riscv64-elf-newlib and arm-none-eabi-newlib, both 4.4.0.20231231-1. Both packages are now including conflicting versions of /usr/share/info/porting.info.gz. It is definitely reasonable to have both the arm-none-eabi-newlib and riscv64-elf-newlib installed. These are packages used for cross-compilation to different architectures. In my case, I use both for cross-compiling to ARM and RISC-V embedded systems.
Is there any recourse for me to fix this locally, or does this need to be resolved by package maintainers? If it’s truly a packaging issue, do I need to report this upstream?