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On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:06:14 Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 26 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > Allan Gottlieb writes: |
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> >> emerge complains that icu (details below) will overwrite files that MAY |
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> >> belong to other packages. But in fact none do. The suggestion is to |
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> >> ignore the collisions. Does that mean I should simply rm the files |
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> >> before retrying the emerge? |
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> > |
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> > Yes. If you think these files might be important, then you could back |
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> > them up first. Apparently they belong to the icu stuff you are going to |
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> > remerge anyway, so deleting should be safe I think. But it's strange |
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> > that those files do not belong to any package. |
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> > |
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> > Instead of removing them it would be easier to set FEATURES to |
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> > -collision- protect. And with FEATURES=keepwork you will not have to |
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> > recompile icu. So, I would do this: |
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> > |
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> > FEATURES="-collision-protect keepwork" emerge -1a dev-libs/icu |
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> > |
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> > Remember that you have to delete stuff in /var/tmp/portage/dev- |
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> > libs/icu-4.6.1 manually afterwards. |
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> |
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> thank you for the advice, which worked fine. |
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I could swear I saw the same/similar message about collisions, but in my case |
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the package emerged and the files were overwritten. Not sure if I have some |
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FEATURES setting that took care of this. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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