From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] file collisions
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:06:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9d3j5e9ah.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105261428.51658.wonko@wonkology.org> (Alex Schuster's message of "Thu, 26 May 2011 14:28:50 +0200")
On Thu, May 26 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
> 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.
thank you for the advice, which worked fine.
allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-26 12:15 [gentoo-user] file collisions Allan Gottlieb
2011-05-26 12:28 ` Alex Schuster
2011-05-26 16:06 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2011-05-26 20:08 ` Mick
2011-05-26 20:38 ` Alex Schuster
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