Re: [gentoo-user] quickpkg - blocking portage-2.1.9.24

[Alan McKinnon]

Apparently, though unproven, at 07:47 on Saturday 27 November 2010, Joseph did 
opine thusly:

> It seems to me new portage-2.1.9.24 doesn't like quickpkg, it complains:
>
> Installing (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.24
>   * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other
>   * packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq
>   * owners / <filename>` to identify the installed package that owns a
>   * file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do
>   * NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at
>   * least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s).
>   * If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from
>   * then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough
>   * information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file
>   * a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which
>   * two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file
>   * a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message.
>   *
>   * package sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.24 NOT merged
>   *
>   * Detected file collision(s):
>   *
>   *      /usr/bin/quickpkg
>
> Should I remove the quickpkg to install new portage or comment-out
> "collision-protect" in make.conf?


You should do neither. You should do what the message says, which is to find 
out why you have a collision and then resolve it. You must definitely not 
remove collision-protect from FEATURES

equery belongs /usr/bin/quickpkg

and then make a decision when you have that answer. Adam's later advice is 
correct.



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