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 1KxkIO-0005FW-TC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:27:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9A06E0158; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84C7FE0158 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so20121yxp.46 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:27:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=ZwDVlYi6e18jPRmrXSAr2LB4C9Gv/MfLyzN7q9e8kR8=; b=ZRWgk0GNHDLNWIjpO6CWhRfTYe+Dczuf+hxiMAUEa2q6ZNDvI2miIoN67JfBViJBnV yW12lO+HMX4Orvde/cKthYnOygL/8a80u9bT9oUTF00ediBYb771eDm/8sMbezKAQ2Np xGGXrF626dGYxICKY4MZrrEWrsh+vmXMbGJ1A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=AOOxb+yLosGziuFbSWQV4XqazyfyhzmTULuixOApdMDGT+T8gup9EZUU9cY8lDLgWM Ji4Oy8S8AfoeitO/MHbyZAE3ZkQH9SMJCWyrhnAcqg2bVan+TKdgW3Z/B3zHO+k+9Stn fxWJ0SMRwmfK5kdw6jCQMkokpWdQHvfRMLR/o= Received: by 10.90.33.15 with SMTP id g15mr759392agg.71.1225898860464; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:27:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.81.1 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 07:27:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38af3d670811050727q6970a8b3s5ceb8de850be586e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:27:40 -0200 From: "Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" Sender: jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java In-Reply-To: <20081105151652.GA5170@princeton.edu> 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 Content-Disposition: inline References: <38af3d670811040616r77307a6cxb7237ac4618353cd@mail.gmail.com> <200811041723.58876.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20081105151652.GA5170@princeton.edu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 908aa9cd11c640f5 X-Archives-Salt: c22c5839-d1b8-42f9-8d0a-bc0f081f1bc0 X-Archives-Hash: 106667b60db13a6140519022543e8c4e On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > 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. No. In my system (Portage 2.1.4.5) this FEATURE does not exist. I have searched make.conf.example, and several portage-related man pages; no mention to "protect-owned". -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds