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 1Ky6ib-0003K9-3w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:24:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1FB7E0411; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:24:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB78EE0418 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 15:24:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v33so376275wah.2 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:24:18 -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:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=nH9CZskD1Ad8ta3TRrnN4y8jtVZlJ88kgnLC67CW17o=; b=JtPcGRx8dSmSEurPBNFv6GhS+1RsEapNjiFMIX5jtDwU74coAlDITcTTclGJI9m1EC 0TM3VZegUhDReLg196g9Wj3dzmjwDIL7fvsvKDVwck2ImOyiWDPACW3zRdLnnBZgxXUF nfeH20rvsDphwelYPH6VyCMvOLI344ZAzEHCA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=Dvivl3edEk3Yu9nQt9DgxYAkB1GZMySTK/gJhbHQYRUVzYTe6i3a4RFwX6CdUD+F5m bK4sMIrsN9ymh1eu2PVqKeVX84wtZjh9SdfYEcEO8OFJg/aNlvbddOGo76taohFJJ3RU JxDNEVD8ad+YEOVjg7pEydCiejfTqapRHhmk0= Received: by 10.115.75.14 with SMTP id c14mr762496wal.86.1225985057964; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.145.19 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 07:24:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:24:17 -0500 From: "Joshua Murphy" 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=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <38af3d670811040616r77307a6cxb7237ac4618353cd@mail.gmail.com> <200811041723.58876.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20081105151652.GA5170@princeton.edu> X-Archives-Salt: 7db9cc84-468a-4679-85d4-6cfe6cc08678 X-Archives-Hash: 0701da86ffdcef955d6fe43ce49d1c15 On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, 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. > > 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 Commit to the source tree for portage: "Add support for FEATURES="protect-owned" which is identical to the [...]" zmedico - August 30, 2008 First portage release after that commit (according to the changelog for sys-apps/portage, no mention of the feature's presence popping up anywhere in the changelog, though). portage-2.2_rc9 - 21 Sep 2008 -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy