Troubled emerging world

[SkyLeach]

I've just got my first mac in my whole life (PowerBook G4). I'm an old hat @ gentoo so I decided to get portage installed as most of what I will be doing on this machine involves java and open source w/ GNU and jboss.

I tried to emerge world but I get the following error when I attempt to emerge cpio:

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gzipping GNU info page: cpio.info
prepallstrip:
strip: strip --strip-unneeded
strip: strip --strip-unneeded
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image// was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///bin was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///bin/cpio was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/doc was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/doc/cpio-2.6-r1 was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/doc/cpio-2.6-r1/ChangeLog.gz was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/doc/cpio-2.6-r1/INSTALL.gz was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/doc/cpio-2.6-r1/NEWS.gz was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/doc/cpio-2.6-r1/README.gz was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/info was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/info/cpio.info.gz was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/man was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/man/man1 was installed with group portage!
 * file /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image///usr/share/man/man1/cpio.1 was installed with group portage!
>>> Completed installing cpio-2.6-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image/

* checking 7 files for package collisions
existing file /usr/share/man/man1/cpio.1 is not owned by this package
* spent 0.0534150600433 seconds checking for file collisions
* This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite
* files belonging to other packages (see messages above).
* If you have no clue what this is all about report it 
* as a bug for this package on http://bugs.gentoo.org

package app-arch/cpio-2.6-r1 NOT merged

No package files given... Grabbing a set.

Does anyone know what this is?

[SkyLeach]

Well, it's obvious that a man page shouldn't be a big deal so I moved the man page to a backup file and then tried remerging system again.

Was this a collision, or was this due to something else? I can't understand why the cpio package will not collide with anything but the man page would. Does OSX install man pages for packages which are not installed?

[stechert]

I think it's a collision. I ran into the same problem and changed FEATURES="-collision-protect" in /etc/make.conf. That went ahead and overwrote the file.

[sapo_selo]

yeah, i also have used the "-collision-protect" and it emerged just fine...

[reddan]

I just did some digging because I don't think I should have to fudge around in order for 'emerge system' to complete correctly. It seems the problem is that portage is not gzipping manpages on OSX: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79788 - this affects ALL packages installed on OSX.

Hopefully this will be fixed soon