trying to emerge zope with collision protect on turned out python versions collide. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. on fresh install system run emerge zope Actual Results: >>> Done. * checking 2530 files for package collisions existing file /usr/bin/idle is not owned by this package existing file /usr/bin/pydoc is not owned by this package existing file /usr/bin/python-config is not owned by this package existing file /usr/sbin/python-updater is not owned by this package 1000 files checked ... 2000 files checked ... * spent 0.291524887085 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 Expected Results: expected clean install zope install was what I needed but I do believe that any application that requires version of python under 2.4 will produce similar errors. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r4 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU U1300 @ 1.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:29:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=prescott -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=prescott -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://gentoo.gg3.net/ http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.channelx.biz/ http://gentoo.kems.net" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en ru pl" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X 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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
correction - I tried to install plone - not just zope. Just to be precise.
python-2.3 is masked for removal in 30 days.
