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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: file collision on net-libs/neon-0.29.3
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:03:51
Message-Id: 201006230641.23117.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: file collision on net-libs/neon-0.29.3 by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Wednesday 23 June 2010 00:17:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 06/23/2010 01:56 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
3 > > Mick writes:
4 > >> Checking for file ownership gives me:
5 > >>
6 > >> # portageq owners / /usr/bin/neon-config
7 > >> net-misc/neon-0.29.3
8 > >> /usr/bin/neon-config
9 > >>
10 > >> # portageq owners / /usr/include/neon/ne_207.h
11 > >> net-misc/neon-0.29.3
12 > >> /usr/include/neon/ne_207.h
13 > >>
14 > >> and so on. How come that I cannot install net-misc/neon-0.29.3 due to
15 > >> file collisions, when it is this package which owns the files in the
16 > >> first place?
17 > >
18 > > Strange! So it is installed already? Did you chaneg USE flags, so it gets
19 > > emerged again? Or did something go wrong when installing it the last
20 > > time?
21 > >
22 > > I have no idea, I wouldn't think what you see is possible at all.
23 >
24 > neon got moved from net-misc to net-libs. It's just that the maintainer
25 > forgot to rename the package if already installed. In those cases, you
26 > either wait till the maintainer renames it, which will be picked up in
27 > the next sync, or you just unmerge and then update again.
28
29 Thanks guys! A resync this morning did it a world of good!
30 --
31 Regards,
32 Mick

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