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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] file collisions
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 20:40:45
Message-Id: 4DDEBA57.7060107@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] file collisions by Mick
1 Mick writes:
2
3 > On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:06:14 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
4 >> On Thu, May 26 2011, Alex Schuster wrote:
5
6 >>> FEATURES="-collision-protect keepwork" emerge -1a dev-libs/icu
7 >>>
8 >>> Remember that you have to delete stuff in /var/tmp/portage/dev-
9 >>> libs/icu-4.6.1 manually afterwards.
10 >>
11 >> thank you for the advice, which worked fine.
12 >
13 > I could swear I saw the same/similar message about collisions, but in my case
14 > the package emerged and the files were overwritten. Not sure if I have some
15 > FEATURES setting that took care of this.
16
17 You probably do not have FEATURES="collision-protect" in make.conf, it
18 is not activated by default.
19 The similar FEATURE protect-owned is set by default, but this only
20 refuses to overwrite files belonging to another package.
21
22 Wonko