Bug 228023 – sys-apps/man-pages-posix-2003a collides with sys-apps/man-pages-2.80

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) 2008-06-18 09:48:46 UTC]

Many manpages from sys-apps/man-pages-posix-2003a collide with files from sys-apps/man-pages-2.80.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2008-06-18 16:36:21 UTC]

that's because it's been split.  unless portage can provide a clean upgrade method, users get screwed, and there's nothing to change.

[Comment 2 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-06-18 16:45:34 UTC]

I was under the impression they already had. Stick a blocker in there and newer Portages will know how to resolve around that. At least Zac had a big blog entry about it or some such. 

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2008-06-18 16:58:13 UTC]

URL ?  point me to something i can read and i'll update the versions accordingly

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2008-06-18 18:18:00 UTC]

I hit this file collision last night and added !<sys-apps/man-pages-3 blocker in man-pages-posix-2003a.ebuild. It's solved automatically by upgrading to man-pages-3.00 before installing man-pages-posix-2003a.

(In reply to comment #3)
> URL ?  point me to something i can read and i'll update the versions
> accordingly

http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/zmedico/2007/08/19/using_blockers_to_adjust_merge_order
http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/zmedico/2008/05/09/blocking_package_file_collisions

[Comment 5 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-06-18 18:26:13 UTC]

I guess I should have peeked at the changelog. I looked at the ebuild itself and it seemed fine before I added my comment so I thought I was going nuts or Portage wasn't respecting what Mike put in there.