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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:45:54PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:54:10 Michael Higgins wrote: |
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> > Detected file collision(s): |
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> > |
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> > /usr/bin/dp |
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> > |
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> > Searching all installed packages for file collisions... |
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> > |
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> > Press Ctrl-C to Stop |
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> > |
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> > mail-client/nmh-1.1-r1 |
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> > /usr/bin/dp |
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> > |
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> > So, it seems both packages install the same file. WTF? Am I dead in the |
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> > water now? |
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> |
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> Not necessarily. Usually one would persuade one of the ebuilds to not build |
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> the offending file by removing some USE flag. That doesn't apply to those |
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> packages (no relevant USE flags) so your options are: |
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> |
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> a. figure out which of the packages you can do without, and do so. (Do you |
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> REALLY need a speech synthesizer?) |
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> b. Examine each package's output of ./configure and see if there's a way to |
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> disable something that will avoid collisions. Then build that package |
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> manually. |
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> c. Do b) but modify the ebuild and store it in your local overlay |
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> d. Put on your cowboy hat (the black one), delete /usr/bin/dp and let rip with |
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Just as a reference: |
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from nmh, you get dp, the date parser: http://linux.die.net/man/8/dp |
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from speech tools, you get dp, the dynamic programming tool: |
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http://festvox.org/docs/speech_tools-1.2.0/x2656.htm |
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The second seems crucial to the operation of speech tools, the former |
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I am not sure. But for either it seems that they could more reasonably |
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belong to /usr/libexec rather than /usr/bin... |
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As to Alan's suggestions: |
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(a) Presumeably the OP knows that he is trying to emerge speech tools. |
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(b) and (c) are right out, at least for speech tools, since the |
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functionality seems crucial. |
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(d) o_0 |
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Let this be a lesson to would-be programmers: it doesn't hurt to make |
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longer, more descriptive names for programs. At the very least it |
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increases the pattern space to decrease chance of collision. |
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My suggestion: file a bug. Hope this either gets passed to upstream, |
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or that someone patches the ebuild to make the packages install to |
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more sane locations. |
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W |
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-- |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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