On Thursday 26 May 2011 17:06:14 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, May 26 2011, Alex Schuster wrote: > > Allan Gottlieb writes: > >> emerge complains that icu (details below) will overwrite files that MAY > >> belong to other packages. But in fact none do. The suggestion is to > >> ignore the collisions. Does that mean I should simply rm the files > >> before retrying the emerge? > > > > Yes. If you think these files might be important, then you could back > > them up first. Apparently they belong to the icu stuff you are going to > > remerge anyway, so deleting should be safe I think. But it's strange > > that those files do not belong to any package. > > > > Instead of removing them it would be easier to set FEATURES to > > -collision- protect. And with FEATURES=keepwork you will not have to > > recompile icu. So, I would do this: > > > > FEATURES="-collision-protect keepwork" emerge -1a dev-libs/icu > > > > Remember that you have to delete stuff in /var/tmp/portage/dev- > > libs/icu-4.6.1 manually afterwards. > > thank you for the advice, which worked fine.
I could swear I saw the same/similar message about collisions, but in my case the package emerged and the files were overwritten. Not sure if I have some FEATURES setting that took care of this. -- Regards, Mick
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