From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QPaJF-0000S9-S3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 13:09:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 809A01C100 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 13:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518C11C0D6 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 12:28:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p5B275544.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.85.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 77AEB4A82BD for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 14:28:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] file collisions Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:28:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-pf8; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105261428.51658.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 13a0b12ca67508b6502c2ccae022ef6a Allan Gottlieb writes: > emerge complains that icu (details below) will overwrite files that MAY > belong to other packages. But in fact none do. The suggestion is to > ignore the collisions. Does that mean I should simply rm the files > before retrying the emerge? Yes. If you think these files might be important, then you could back them up first. Apparently they belong to the icu stuff you are going to remerge anyway, so deleting should be safe I think. But it's strange that those files do not belong to any package. Instead of removing them it would be easier to set FEATURES to -collision- protect. And with FEATURES=keepwork you will not have to recompile icu. So, I would do this: FEATURES="-collision-protect keepwork" emerge -1a dev-libs/icu Remember that you have to delete stuff in /var/tmp/portage/dev- libs/icu-4.6.1 manually afterwards. Wonko