[gentoo-user] /usr/lib/pkgconfig collisions

[Roy Wright]

Howdy,

While attempting to try the latest version of ruby-gnome2 (0.19.1), I  
copied the 0.19.0 ebuilds to my local overlay then renamed them to the  
new version.  I then downloaded the ruby-gnome2-all-0.19.1.tar.gz,  
placed it in /usr/portage/distfiles, then used "ebuild ruby-...  
digest" for each of the packages to create the Manifest file.

When I attempt to emerge the updated packages, the first package, ruby- 
glib2-0.19.1, errors with a detected file collision on /usr/lib/ 
pkgconfig.  This is a directory and thus emerge finds every package  
that has installed a file in it.

Now my guess is that some code that attempts to check for conflicts  
within the /usr/lib/pkgconfig directory is being given an blank  
package name, thus is checking the directory.  My problem is I don't  
see where the conflict code is even called.  Anyone have any hints or  
know where the documentation is?

TIA,
Roy