On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Friday 02 January 2009, Robert Bridge wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:02:15 +0000 >> >> Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I do not have collision-protect in my make.conf. >> > >> > Emerging media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 gives me: >> > ================================================= > >> > * Detected file collision(s): >> > * >> > * /usr/share/fonts/terminus/encodings.dir >> > * >> > * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... >> > * >> > * Press Ctrl-C to Stop >> > * >> > * None of the installed packages claim the file(s). >> >> This line tells you it's an orphaned file. >> >> > * Package 'media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28' merged despite file >> > * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole >> > * content of the above message. >> > >> > >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >> > >>> >> > >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. >> > >> > * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. >> > ================================================= >> > >> > Could you please remind me what am I supposed to do with this? >> > Should I rm /usr/share/fonts/terminus/encodings.dir and remerge >> > media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 ? I am not clear on the process, >> > since I never had to deal with this manually in the past. >> >> As no installed package claims the file, simply remove it and remerge >> the fonts. > > Thanks RobbieAB. Actually, it showed that the file was owned by the installed > package: > > # portageq owners / /usr/share/fonts/terminus/encodings.dir > media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 > /usr/share/fonts/terminus/encodings.dir > > Either way, I removed the file and reinstalled media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28. > -- > Regards, > Mick >
I use 'protect-owned' in my make.conf FEATURES so it will abort on collision with a file known to be owned by an installed package, and otherwise overwrite unknown/orphaned files that shouldn't be there anyway...
