From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kxk74-0003mI-Mx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:16:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11C19E0055; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice06.Princeton.EDU [128.112.133.8]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4FEE0055 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:16:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id mA5FG1HS005328 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:16:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id mA5FFvwv022425 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:16:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2D32815649E; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:16:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:16:52 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java Message-ID: <20081105151652.GA5170@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <38af3d670811040616r77307a6cxb7237ac4618353cd@mail.gmail.com> <200811041723.58876.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200811041723.58876.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: f1d9ee16-409e-4771-85d3-a274731fdfc7 X-Archives-Hash: bcc99df1eafe6e0854266a7d421d8565 On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if > > any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good > > knowledge of it, I didn't change the default. > > You probably want this enabled. I think it's disabled by default because new > users will have no idea whatsoever what to do about it. All it does is check > the files it wants to install with what's on the disk. If there's a match, > the existing files must only have been put there by the same package > (ignoring version numbers). > > If there's a collision, you get a huge big fat error message and a chance to > find out why two different packages install the same file. Maybe you need to > uninstall one, maybe it doesn't matter. If it's the latter, just > > FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge > > and continue as normal. In any event, you get to decide what should happen. > Every experienced gentoo user should be using this imho > On my version of portage (2.2_rc13; but I am pretty sure this is the case for some older ones too), there is the default feature "protect-owned" which provides more or less the same function as collision-protect but is slightly smarter. See 'man make.conf' for details. W -- Don't tell anyone, but duct tape is The Force. It has a dark side, and a light side, and it binds the Universe together. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 698 days, 13:54