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 1QPe0a-0005er-E0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 17:06:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E46341C138 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 17:06:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A84FA1C128 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 16:06:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4a59b202.dyn.optonline.net [74.89.178.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4QG6EKj029870 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 12:06:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id B925070168; Thu, 26 May 2011 12:06:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] file collisions References: <201105261428.51658.wonko@wonkology.org> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:06:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201105261428.51658.wonko@wonkology.org> (Alex Schuster's message of "Thu, 26 May 2011 14:28:50 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) 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=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ceeca610f433227a03099dadb9a093be 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