sys-libs/glibc versions older than 2.3.5-r3 included the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo and the following binaries: - /usr/bin/tzselect - /usr/sbin/zdump - /usr/sbin/zic Newer (>= 2.3.5-r3) versions of glibc depend on sys-libs/timezone-data, but timezone-data doesn't depend on any specific version of glibc (this would create a circular dependency). The consequence is that if you have an old glibc installed, you'll get tons of file collision errors when emerging sys-libs/timezone-data. My suggestion is to add a warning to the timezone-data indicating the likely cause of file collision errors as well as possible solutions (ie update glibc or use COLLISION_IGNORE). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sys-libs/timezone-data on a system with sys-libs/glibc < 2.3.5-r3 Actual Results: see above Expected Results: see above
added a blocker http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/timezone-data/timezone-data-2009b.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2