emerge world -- cpio-2.6-r1 collison detected

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nolith · Post by **nolith** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:26 am

After emerge world

>>> Completed installing cpio-2.6-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/cpio-2.6-r1/image/

* checking 22 files for package collisions
existing file /usr/share/man/man1/cpio.1 is not owned by this package
* spent 0.643768787384 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.

Is it normal?
Tnx

moocha · Post by **moocha** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 10:58 am

Not really, but you can either manually delete the offending file /usr/share/man/man1/cpio.1.gz (which obviously belongs to cpio) and remerge, or remerge with collision checking turned off (see FEATURES in /etc/make.conf.example for a reference on what to turn off).

amcnabb · Post by **amcnabb** » Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:58 pm

I'm having the same problem. Obviously we could tell Gentoo to clobber MacOS files, or we could clobber them ourselves, but that seems like a pretty lame idea.

It looks like sys-arch/cpio-2.6 is in the packages.provided. Is there a reason Portage isn't respecting the packages.provided, or is there a way to fix it? I've even tried changing the packages.provided line to read sys-arch/cpio-2.6-r1 but even that didn't work.

moocha wrote:Not really, but you can either manually delete the offending file /usr/share/man/man1/cpio.1.gz (which obviously belongs to cpio) and remerge, or remerge with collision checking turned off (see FEATURES in /etc/make.conf.example for a reference on what to turn off).

moocha · Post by **moocha** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:21 am

amcnabb wrote:It looks like sys-arch/cpio-2.6 is in the packages.provided. Is there a reason Portage isn't respecting the packages.provided, or is there a way to fix it? I've even tried changing the packages.provided line to read sys-arch/cpio-2.6-r1 but even that didn't work.

Which isn't surprising, considering that the name is app-arch/cpio.

amcnabb · Post by **amcnabb** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:47 am

moocha wrote:Which isn't surprising, considering that the name is app-arch/cpio.

I apologize for my crippling typo in the forum posting. The line I added to the package.provided which didn't take effect was in fact "app-arch/cpio-2.6-r2". I'm able to avoid the problem with an inject, but that seems like a dirtier solution. I'm more interested in knowing why package.provided is being ignored.

moocha · Post by **moocha** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:05 pm

The name has to be /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, and the permissions need to be 0644, owner root:root.

robinp · Post by **robinp** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 12:05 am

To fix its easiest to just disable collision-protect temporarily. Its just a manpage thast conflilcting because of a portage bug.

Code: Select all

FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge -v cpio

Apples cpio lives in /bin
portage installs it to /usr/bin

Will hopefully be fixed in the next version of portage.

(Words stolen from Kito's mouth)