Portage: 2.1.6.4 Emerge: coreutils-6.10-r2 Reason: Coreutils, at the end of the emerge tries to install some man-pages. The man pages already exist, and with portage 2.1.6.4, "protect-owned" is enabled by default. because the files already exist, and are owned my "man-pages-2.42" the whole emerge fails. The man pages are in "/usr/share/man/man1/<name>.1.bz2", where <name>: is any of the following: chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir, dircolors, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, rm, rmdir, touch, vdir It has been reproduced more than once with exactly the same output. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge -av coreutils 2.type "yes" 3.wait Actual Results: The build process worked, but emerging failed due to file collisions. Expected Results: I expected the package to merge properly, and it did not, but not due to a build reason. Deleting the current copies of the files is a kludgy workaround, but the whole process results in a loss of productivity. Thank you for your help ! I love Gentoo !
man-pages-2.42 is crazy old. upgrade it.
