Bug 116699 – collision between dev-libs/xplc-0.3.13 and sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.38-r1

• Status: VERIFIED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sandro Bonazzola (RETIRED) 2005-12-25 07:21:39 UTC]

>>> Completed installing xplc-0.3.13 into /var/tmp/portage/xplc-0.3.13/image/

* checking 34 files for package collisions
existing file /usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz is not owned by this package
* spent 0.00258421897888 seconds checking for file collisions

# qfile -v /usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz
sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.38-r1 (/usr/share/man/man1/uuidgen.1.gz)

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2005-12-25 08:55:25 UTC]

xplc is broken, not e2fsprogs

[Comment 2 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2005-12-26 22:07:13 UTC]

Adding mrness to CC since its his package.

[Comment 3 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-12-27 00:09:40 UTC]

huh? why would be xplc package the faulty one? uuidgen utility installed by xplc is a more complete program, that expand functionality present in the utility installed by e2fsprogs. 

I'd say e2fsprogs should should cease to install uuidgen.
how do you see this collision solved? 

[Comment 4 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2005-12-27 00:17:37 UTC]

e2fsprogs is part of the base system.  I'm going to assume people that are going to be using uuidgen expect it to be the "default" one.  I'd have the xlpc one named differently to resolve the collision.

[Comment 5 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-12-27 00:20:14 UTC]

okay, but what name should I use?

[Comment 6 Ciaran McCreesh 2005-12-27 09:34:19 UTC]

Prefix it with xplc-?

[Comment 7 Alin Năstac (RETIRED) 2005-12-28 02:01:00 UTC]

-r1 submitted, having uuid utilities prefixed with xplc-.

[Comment 8 Sandro Bonazzola (RETIRED) 2006-01-14 05:31:37 UTC]

Closing, the solution works fine for me.