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From: "P.V.Anthony" <pvantony@×××××××××××.sg>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: File collision with courier-imap and maildrop
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:26:50
Message-Id: 4788EA46.2090506@singnet.com.sg
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: File collision with courier-imap and maildrop by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On this day, 10-January-2008 7:21 PM, Duncan wrote:
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3 > There's a way (actually several) to force it, but be sure to file a bug
4 > on it anyway (checking first to see if one's already filed, of course).
5 > IOW, don't let the fact that you can force it cause you to avoid the bug
6 > filing step, because it /is/ a bug, and should be fixed.
7 >
8 > 1) You can avoid the problem once with
9 >
10 > FEATURES=-collision-protect emerge <whatever>
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12 This method worked. Thank you for the solution. Really needed this solution.
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14 Looked at doing a bug report and found that it was done already. In fact
15 on the 1st of Jan 2008.
16 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203947
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18
19 > 3) If you want to have portage avoid collision-protect checking for a
20 > specific file, class of files, or an entire directory, by default, set
21 > the COLLISION_IGNORE variable in make.conf (man 5 make.conf for details).
22
23 This one is really cool. Thank you very much for sharing this information.
24
25 P.V.Anthony
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: File collision with courier-imap and maildrop Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>