>>> Done. >>> extracting info >>> extracting portage-2.1_pre1 * checking 171 files for package collisions existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/fs_template.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/cache_errors.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/__init__.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/template.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/cache/metadata.pyo is not owned by this package * spent 0.377887964249 seconds checking for file collisions * This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite * files belonging to other packages (see messages above). * If you have no clue what this is all about report it * as a bug for this package on http://bugs.gentoo.org package sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre1 NOT merged No package files given... Grabbing a set. ================================================================================ Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.6-r1, 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LC_ALL="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags,--sort-common" LINGUAS="RU EN ru en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/bmg-main /usr/local/overlays/gentopia" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X a52 aalib acl acpi activefilter adns aim alsa apache2 artworkextra asf audiofile avi bash-completion bashlogger bcmath berkdb big-tables bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo calendar canvas cap caps cdb cdparanoia cdr clamav cle266 cp1251 cpdflib crypt css cups curl curlwrappers customlog dba dbus dga doc dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread ecc eds effects emboss encode examples exif expat extensions extraengine fam fat fbcon ffmpeg firefox flash follow-xff foomaticdb fortran freetds ftp gd gdbm geoip gif gkt2 glitz glut gmp gnome-firefox gnutls gpm gtk2 guile hal hddtemp iconv icq idea idn imagemagick imap imlib inkjar ithreads java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kdeenablefinal kig-scripting lcms lesstif libcaca libedit libg++ libwww lirc logrotate lua lzo mad maildir mailwrapper matroska mbrola memlimit mhash mikmod mime ming mmap mmx mmxext mng mozdevelop mozsvg mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc musicbrainz mysql nautilus nls nptl nptlonly ntfs numeric nvidia objc objc-gc odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pccts pcntl pcre pdf pdflib perl perlsuid php plotutils plugin png posix povray profile pyste python quicktime readline real reiserfs rtc ruby sametime screen sdl session sharedext simplexml slang slp snmp sockets socks5 speex spell spf sse ssl subp svg symlink sysfs t1lib tabs tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads threadsonly tidy tiff tools transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev underscores unicode usb utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vchroot vhosts vorbis win32codecs wmf xanim xface xgetdefault xine xinerama xml xml2 xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zero-penalty-hit zlib linguas_RU linguas_EN linguas_ru linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET ================================================================================ that's i got when tried to upgrade [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1_pre1 [2.0.53] -build (-selinux) 0 kB
You probably had installed portage-2.1_alpha or ferringb's cache backport patch. Either way, those old *.pyo files are not needed any longer, so it's safe to remove or replace them.