On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon > squawked: >> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> > collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if >> > any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good >> > knowledge of it, I didn't change the default. >> >> You probably want this enabled. I think it's disabled by default because new >> users will have no idea whatsoever what to do about it. All it does is check >> the files it wants to install with what's on the disk. If there's a match, >> the existing files must only have been put there by the same package >> (ignoring version numbers). >> >> If there's a collision, you get a huge big fat error message and a chance to >> find out why two different packages install the same file. Maybe you need to >> uninstall one, maybe it doesn't matter. If it's the latter, just >> >> FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge <package> >> >> and continue as normal. In any event, you get to decide what should happen. >> Every experienced gentoo user should be using this imho >> > > On my version of portage (2.2_rc13; but I am pretty sure this is the > case for some older ones too), there is the default feature > "protect-owned" which provides more or less the same function as > collision-protect but is slightly smarter. See 'man make.conf' for > details. > > W > -- > Don't tell anyone, but duct tape is The Force. It has a dark > side, and a light side, and it binds the Universe together. > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 698 days, 13:54
Commit to the source tree for portage: "Add support for FEATURES="protect-owned" which is identical to the [...]" zmedico - August 30, 2008 First portage release after that commit (according to the changelog for sys-apps/portage, no mention of the feature's presence popping up anywhere in the changelog, though). portage-2.2_rc9 - 21 Sep 2008 -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
