Bug 178490 – app-admin/python-updater collision w/ older python versions

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert Bridge 2007-05-14 10:21:46 UTC]

I get the followng error message when installing  app-admin/python-updater

* checking 1 files for package collisions
existing file /usr/sbin/python-updater is not owned by this package
* 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-admin/python-updater-0.2 NOT merged


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 * dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4:

     '/usr/sbin/python-updater'


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-14 12:22:24 UTC]

You need to upgrade to >=dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4. Just do it first or emerge this w/ collision-protect disabled or whatever. We could stick some blocker there but I'd say it plain isn't worth the PITA.

[Comment 2 Bryan Østergaard (RETIRED) 2007-05-14 21:08:01 UTC]

We can't solve this problem with the older python ebuilds unfortunately. With the new versions python-updater is split out in it's own ebuild, partly to avoid file collisions.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-05-16 21:05:07 UTC]

*** Bug 178806 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 mark zanfardino 2008-03-16 07:50:16 UTC]

It's been suggested that disabling collision-protect in make.conf is a bad idea.  As an alternative you might try adding "sys-devel/python ~[your arch]" to /etc/portage/package.keyword.  This seems to have worked for me.

[Comment 5 Jan Kundrát (RETIRED) 2008-04-14 19:03:53 UTC]

*** Bug 217682 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***