When trying to merge taxbird 0.7 it fails with the following error: * checking 51 files for package collisions existing file /usr/share/mime/XMLnamespaces is not owned by this package existing file /usr/share/mime/globs is not owned by this package existing file /usr/share/mime/magic is not owned by this package existing file /usr/share/mime/subclasses is not owned by this package existing file /usr/share/mime/aliases is not owned by this package existing file /usr/share/mime/mime.cache 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-office/taxbird-0.7 NOT merged The automatic search for file collisions won't find any packages those files belong to. A manual search using equery gave me the same result. As far as I understand, those files (or at least some of them) are usually created using the update-mime-database script. So, imo the ebuild should use this standard method to install it's mime files. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge taxbird 2. 3. Actual Results: Installation stops at merge time with a collision error. Expected Results: The mime files, or at least some of them, should be created by the update-mime-database script?
Created attachment 122699 [details] contents of emerge --info
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Well; we cannot fix collisions with orphaned files. Feel free to reopen once you've found out what's installed them.
I don't think those files are orphaned. They are usually created by /usr/bin/update-mime-database from the x11-misc/shared-mime-info package. I tried and deleted them and then called the update-mime-database program and any of those files was recreated by it. There is also an eclass /usr/portage/eclass/fdo-mime.eclass containing a function fdo-mime_mime_database_update(). I suppose this function usually does this job, for example when installing a gnome related package, this function seems to get called, according to the output "Updating shared mime info database..." that usually occurs on such installs and is part of said function. Shouldn't those files get updated in this way, instead of having the taxbird ebuild installing it's own mime files but NOT updating the global mime cache? I tried and removed all the files and then emerged taxbird and called update-mime-database manually. The then generated files differ only in entries to taxbird: morgaine portage # diff -u /mnt/backup/gentoo/mime/globs /usr/share/mime/globs --- /mnt/backup/gentoo/mime/globs 2007-06-21 16:02:34.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/share/mime/globs 2007-06-22 03:35:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ application/x-kontour:*.kon application/x-qw:*.qif application/x-config:*.config +application/x-taxbird:*.txb application/x-magicpoint:*.mgp text/x-readme:README* application/x-designer:*.ui and morgaine portage # diff -u /mnt/backup/gentoo/mime/subclasses /usr/share/mime/subclasses --- /mnt/backup/gentoo/mime/subclasses 2007-06-21 16:02:34.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/share/mime/subclasses 2007-06-22 03:35:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ application/rtf text/plain application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.database application/zip text/htmlh text/plain +application/x-taxbird text/plain application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation application/zip text/x-matlab text/plain text/x-java text/x-csrc The /usr/share/mime/mime.cache file also has binary differences. All other reported files are identical. Do I understand anything wrong when I suppose that the taxbird ebuild should only install/merge the /usr/share/mime/application/x-taxbird.xml and /usr/share/mime/packages/taxbird.xml files and then call the said function from the fdo-mime eclass instead of pre-creating and then installing all the reported files?
Created attachment 122887 [details, diff] ebuild patch to use the fdo-mime eclass I'm not into the insides of writing an ebuild, but the attached patch hack to the taxbird-0.7 ebuild does work for me. I'm not sure, whether the call to fdo-mime_desktop_database_update() is necessary, but as there's a file installed into the /usr/share/applications folder, I thought it's better to also call this function beside the fdo-mime_mime_database_update() function.
Thanks for the report, the analysis and the fix! Has been added to the newer taxbird-0.10 ebuild. Hope this resolves the problem.
