Re: [gentoo-user] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 with x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 -- file conflict

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman writes:
>
>> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > I thank you for the expert advice.  I'm doing the emerge now, but even
>> > if it succeeds, I'm worried that the xorg-server will still own this
>> > file, since portageq seems to see that it does.  This seems inherently
>> > wrong.
>
> Well, it is indeed.
>
>> > Sigh.  I'm too far along to flinch now, so if this emerges, I'll
>> > probably restart X.
>> >
>> > Wish me luck.
>
> I do, but I do not believe bad things might happen.
>
>> Hmm.  Even with the FEATURES option from the suggestion, I get exactly
>> the same error message.  I cut-and-pasted it, but I wonder if it's
>> spelled right?
>
> It is. But I forgot about the protect-owned feature. I thought -collision-
> protect would act stronger and imply it, but apparently it does not. So,
> 'FEATURES=-protect-owned emerge ati-drivers' might have worked better. If
> not, 'FEATURES="-collision-protect -protect-owned" emerge ati-drivers' would
> have worked in any case.
>
>> I'm going to try just deleting (well, renaming) the file, hoping that
>> this will work...
>
> Yes, that's okay. After all, the file is still there, it's just now being
> generated by the ati-driver. I wouldn't worry too much.
>
>        Wonko

well, it emerged this time.  I'm going to restart X over the weekend,
when I'll have time to clean up the mess that I half expect.

++ kevin

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD