Bug 1933 – files from netscape-flash deleted when unmerge netscape-navigator package (was files from netscape-flash deleted when unmerge netscape-navigator)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Cong 2002-04-19 05:00:19 UTC]

It seem that files from netscape-flash were deleted when I unmerge
netscape-navigator.

Cong

[Comment 1 Jon Nelson (RETIRED) 2002-04-28 13:49:40 UTC]

I have attempted to reproduce this bug, an cannot.
If you can show me how to reproduce it, I'd be glad to fix it.

A  snippet from unmerging netscape *after* merging netscape-flash:

--- !empty dir /usr/X11R6
--- !empty dir /usr
<<<       obj /opt/netscape/plugins/libnullplugin.so
--- !mtime obj /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
<<<       obj /opt/netscape/plugins/cpPack1.jar
--- !mtime obj /opt/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class
--- !empty dir /opt/netscape/plugins
<<<       obj /opt/netscape/netscape
<<<       obj /opt/netscape/nethelp/picsfail.jar

[Comment 2 Cong 2002-04-28 21:36:08 UTC]

# emerge netscape-flash
# emerge netscape-navigator
# qpkg -f  /opt/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class
net-www/netscape-flash-5.0.47-r4 *
net-www/netscape-navigator-4.79 *
# emerge netscape-navigator -C
# ls -l /opt/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class
ls: /opt/netscape/plugins/ShockwaveFlash.class: No such file or directory

[Comment 3 Jon Nelson (RETIRED) 2002-04-28 22:16:54 UTC]

Hmm.
This is a portage bug, sort of.
What if two packages own the same file, and you unmerge the most-recently-merged
package.
Interesting.
This is definately a portage bug.

[Comment 4 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-04-29 01:17:31 UTC]

This can be undesirable when 2 different ebuilds provide the same file, but it
is a known part of the design of our current system.  Jon, this should be
addressed specifically from the netscape angle rather than the Portage angle.