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 1QPhMK-0002kA-Q9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 20:40:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AA1B1C005; Thu, 26 May 2011 20:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE621C005 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 20:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.43] (p5B275544.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.85.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7558A4A82BD for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 22:39:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4DDEBA57.7060107@wonkology.org> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 22:38:47 +0200 From: Alex Schuster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] file collisions References: <201105261428.51658.wonko@wonkology.org> <201105262108.36400.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201105262108.36400.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: dcbc0b3da639d35a523964fafac70b32 Mick writes: > On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:06:14 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> On Thu, May 26 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: >>> 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. >> >> thank you for the advice, which worked fine. > > I could swear I saw the same/similar message about collisions, but in my case > the package emerged and the files were overwritten. Not sure if I have some > FEATURES setting that took care of this. You probably do not have FEATURES="collision-protect" in make.conf, it is not activated by default. The similar FEATURE protect-owned is set by default, but this only refuses to overwrite files belonging to another package. Wonko