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On 01/11/2010 04:09 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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> My usual update world rebuilt gcc and then tried to reinstall pcmcia-cs. |
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> The later failed and googling showed that I should use instead |
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> pcmciautils. |
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> Merging pcmciautils required merging dev-util/yacc. |
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> I don't know why it wouldn't accept bison. |
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> dev-util/yacc failed to build due to a file collision with |
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> /usr/bin/yacc, an unowned file. |
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> /usr/bin/yacc is unowned by any package; it is a symlink, to |
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> /usr/bin/yacc.bison. The bison ebuild moves any existing /usr/bin/yacc |
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> to /usr/bin/yacc.bison and installs the symlink... |
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Me too: |
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$ls -l /usr/bin/yac* |
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2005-09-30 18:09 /usr/bin/yacc -> yacc.bison |
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-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39 2009-05-10 05:46 /usr/bin/yacc.bison |
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That symlink is from 2005, and no package claims it. I, personally, |
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would not hesitate to nuke that five-year-old unclaimed symlink. |
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Hm. My bison-2.3 does *not* claim credit for that yacc symlink. |
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I think it's an orphan and should be deleted. |
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But don't yell at me if it turns out to be a bad idea :o/ |
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