[Nottingham] Gentoo experts: emerge file collisions!?

[Martin]

Richard Ward wrote:
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> A couple of ideas:
> 1) Run your emerge command with `--verbose', see what the conflicting 
> files are.
> 2) Try an `emerge -pvDu world' (pretend verbose deep update) which 
> should show every possible update, and see if any of those files look 
> like ones that would belong to one of the listed updates.

Good ideas there. The "deep update" may well be the crucial bit.

Trying:

emerge -pvDu system

Gives:

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] dev-libs/gmp-4.2.4 [4.2.2] USE="-nocxx (-doc%)" 1,671 kB
[ebuild     U ] dev-libs/mpfr-2.4.1_p1 [2.3.0_p4] 883 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/debianutils-3.1.3 [2.31] USE="-static" 130 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.8-r2 [5.8.8-r1] USE="berkdb gdbm 
-debug -ithreads" 0 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] perl-core/Test-Harness-3.10 [2.64] 173 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.5 [1.20.1-r6] USE="(-selinux)" 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/less-429 [418] USE="unicode" 297 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.63-r1 [2.63] USE="-emacs" 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.05 [1.04.3] 6 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1 [4.5.20_p2] USE="-doc -java 
-nocxx -tcl -test (-bootstrap%)" 9,068 kB
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.43 [2.4.39] USE="nls" 115 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-editors/nano-2.1.7-r1 [2.0.7] USE="ncurses nls 
unicode -debug -justify -minimal -slang -spell" 1,435 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-admin/eselect-1.1.1 [1.0.11-r1] 
USE="-bash-completion -doc (-vim-syntax%)" 150 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-admin/eselect-python-20090606 [20080925] 3 kB
[ebuild     U ] dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 [2.5.4-r2] USE="berkdb gdbm 
ncurses readline ssl threads xml -build -doc -examples -ipv6 -sqlite -tk 
-ucs2 -wininst" 0 kB
[ebuild     U ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.7.3 [2.6.30-r1] USE="python readline 
-debug -doc -examples% -ipv6* -test (-bootstrap%) (-build%)" 4,678 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-admin/python-updater-0.7 [0.2] 7 kB
[ebuild  NS   ] sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 [2.8_p20080602-r1] 
USE="nls -debug -gd -glibc-omitfp (-hardened) (-multilib) -profile 
(-selinux) -vanilla" 0 kB

Total: 18 packages (16 upgrades, 2 in new slots), Size of downloads: 
18,608 kB


I'm letting that one run through now. It will take a while before it 
gets down to the glibc.


> 3) Do you have any exciting packages unmasked? It could be that some 
> dependency isn't also being dragged in to the update.

Nope. Nothing more exciting than just "fortune".

The main /exception/ is that I don't have any Xorg on this system. 
There's not anything more exciting than syntax colouring for the terminals!


> I'd imagine the --verbose option would probably shed most light on whats 
> going on.

I'm logging the output to see what happens...


Thanks,
Martin

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Martin Lomas
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