Both app-i18n/man-pages-de-0.4 and app-arch/dpkg-1.10.28 install the file /usr/share/man/de/man1/md5sum.1.gz: >>> Extracting man-pages-de-0.4 * checking 635 files for package collisions existing file /usr/share/man/de/man1/md5sum.1.gz is not owned by this package * spent 0.109599113464 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 app-i18n/man-pages-de-0.4 NOT merged No package files given... Grabbing a set. root@cube:/etc/portage# equery belongs /usr/share/man/de/man1/md5sum.1.gz [ Searching for file(s) /usr/share/man/de/man1/md5sum.1.gz in *... ] app-arch/dpkg-1.10.28 (/usr/share/man/de/man1/md5sum.1.gz) The binary associated with this man-page is owned by a third package, sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1: root@cube:/etc/portage# equery belongs $(which md5sum) [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/md5sum in *... ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 (/usr/bin/md5sum) Since coreutils is in the base system, I'd suggest providing /usr/share/man/de/man1/md5sum.1.gz in app-i18n/man-pages-de-0.4 and dropping it from app-arch/dpkg-1.10.28.
I recommend upgrading to dpkg-1.13.11 to fix this problem. From app-arch/dpkg/Changelog: 29 Aug 2005; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> metadata.xml, +dpkg-1.13.11.ebuild: Version bump to fix md5sum manpage collision. This newer ebuild has already been promoted to stable on x86 and ppc, and the others will probably follow soon (Bug #134279)
