| 1 |
On Thu, May 26 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> Allan Gottlieb writes: |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
>> emerge complains that icu (details below) will overwrite files that MAY |
| 6 |
>> belong to other packages. But in fact none do. The suggestion is to |
| 7 |
>> ignore the collisions. Does that mean I should simply rm the files |
| 8 |
>> before retrying the emerge? |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> Yes. If you think these files might be important, then you could back them |
| 11 |
> up first. Apparently they belong to the icu stuff you are going to remerge |
| 12 |
> anyway, so deleting should be safe I think. But it's strange that those |
| 13 |
> files do not belong to any package. |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> Instead of removing them it would be easier to set FEATURES to -collision- |
| 16 |
> protect. And with FEATURES=keepwork you will not have to recompile icu. So, |
| 17 |
> I would do this: |
| 18 |
> |
| 19 |
> FEATURES="-collision-protect keepwork" emerge -1a dev-libs/icu |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> Remember that you have to delete stuff in /var/tmp/portage/dev- |
| 22 |
> libs/icu-4.6.1 manually afterwards. |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
thank you for the advice, which worked fine. |
| 25 |
|
| 26 |
allan |
Archives