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On this day, 10-January-2008 7:21 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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> There's a way (actually several) to force it, but be sure to file a bug |
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> on it anyway (checking first to see if one's already filed, of course). |
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> IOW, don't let the fact that you can force it cause you to avoid the bug |
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> filing step, because it /is/ a bug, and should be fixed. |
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> 1) You can avoid the problem once with |
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> FEATURES=-collision-protect emerge <whatever> |
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This method worked. Thank you for the solution. Really needed this solution. |
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Looked at doing a bug report and found that it was done already. In fact |
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on the 1st of Jan 2008. |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203947 |
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> 3) If you want to have portage avoid collision-protect checking for a |
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> specific file, class of files, or an entire directory, by default, set |
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> the COLLISION_IGNORE variable in make.conf (man 5 make.conf for details). |
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This one is really cool. Thank you very much for sharing this information. |
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P.V.Anthony |
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