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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon squawked: |
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>> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: |
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>> > collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if |
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>> > any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good |
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>> > knowledge of it, I didn't change the default. |
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>> You probably want this enabled. I think it's disabled by default because new |
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>> users will have no idea whatsoever what to do about it. All it does is check |
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>> the files it wants to install with what's on the disk. If there's a match, |
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>> the existing files must only have been put there by the same package |
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>> (ignoring version numbers). |
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>> If there's a collision, you get a huge big fat error message and a chance to |
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>> find out why two different packages install the same file. Maybe you need to |
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>> uninstall one, maybe it doesn't matter. If it's the latter, just |
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>> FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge <package> |
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>> and continue as normal. In any event, you get to decide what should happen. |
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>> Every experienced gentoo user should be using this imho |
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> On my version of portage (2.2_rc13; but I am pretty sure this is the |
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> case for some older ones too), there is the default feature |
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> "protect-owned" which provides more or less the same function as |
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> collision-protect but is slightly smarter. See 'man make.conf' for |
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> details. |
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No. In my system (Portage 2.1.4.5) this FEATURE does not exist. I have |
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searched make.conf.example, and several portage-related man pages; no |
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mention to "protect-owned". |
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