Bug 291806 – poppler: binary packages of virtuals overwrite real ones

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Manuel Lauss 2009-11-04 06:17:54 UTC]

with "emerge --buildpkg", virtual/poppler overwrites the binary package
of dev-libs/poppler (identical binary file name).  Please rename the
virtuals e.g. the same way the perl virtuals are named (virtual/poppler-poppler,
virtual/poppler-poppler-qt3, ...) so as the virtuals have a different binary file
name.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Sebastian Luther (few) 2009-11-04 08:04:02 UTC]

For me these files are stored in different directories. One in the dev-libs and one in the virtual directory.

[Comment 2 Manuel Lauss 2009-11-04 08:13:55 UTC]

Interesting.  Did you set any special options? 

Current portage-2.1.7.3 dumps all binary packages in {PKGDIR}/All, with symlinks to them in {PKGDIR}/{category}/.  So on all my systems, both {PKGDIR}/virtual/poppler-0.12.1.tbz2 and {PKGDIR}/dev-libs/poppler-0.12.1.tbz2 point to ../All/poppler-0.12.1.tbz2,  with virtual/ overwriting the binary of previously emerge
dev-libs/ package.

[Comment 3 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2009-11-04 08:36:21 UTC]

You have to switch the layout (or delete the PKGDIR contents altogether) before Portage will use the new layout (binaries in category directory instead of All). There's a script on bug #133908 to do this.

[Comment 4 Manuel Lauss 2009-11-04 08:38:21 UTC]

Ah, thanks!  Closing this bug as invalid.