I have both app-office/akonadi-server and kde-base/akonadi installed and both of them claim to own /usr/bin/akonadiserver. protect-owned should have kicked in here... # eix -c akonadi [I] app-office/akonadi-server (1.3.0[1]@21/01/10): The server part of Akonadi [U] kde-base/akonadi (4.3.90(4.4)[1]@10/01/10 -> (~)4.3.5(4.3) {M}(~)4.3.95(4.4)!m[1]): An extensible cross-desktop storage service for PIM data and meta data # ( q list akonadi-server ; q list akonadi ) | grep /usr/bin/akonadiserver /usr/bin/akonadiserver /usr/bin/akonadiserver Reproducible: Always
Bumped kde-base/akonadi to 4.3.95: [I] app-office/akonadi-server (1.3.0[1]@21/01/10): The server part of Akonadi [I] kde-base/akonadi (4.3.95(4.4)[1]@28/01/10): An extensible cross-desktop storage service for PIM data and meta data Again portage did not detect the collision in /usr/bin/akonadiserver.
A full file listing shows a different output for equery. So apparently portage-utils is broken, not portage itself: # equery files akonadi-server akonadi * Searching for akonadi-server ... * Contents of app-office/akonadi-server-1.3.0: /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/akonadi_control /usr/bin/akonadictl /usr/bin/akonadiserver /usr/include /usr/include/akonadi /usr/include/akonadi/private /usr/include/akonadi/private/akonadiprotocolinternals_export.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/capabilities_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/imapparser_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/imapset_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/notificationmessage_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/protocol_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/xdgbasedirs_p.h /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/cmake /usr/lib64/cmake/Akonadi /usr/lib64/cmake/Akonadi/AkonadiConfig.cmake /usr/lib64/cmake/Akonadi/AkonadiConfigVersion.cmake /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so -> libakonadiprivate.so.1 /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so.1 -> libakonadiprivate.so.1.3.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so.1.3.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadiprotocolinternals.so -> libakonadiprotocolinternals.so.1 /usr/lib64/libakonadiprotocolinternals.so.1 -> libakonadiprotocolinternals.so.1.3.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadiprotocolinternals.so.1.3.0 /usr/lib64/pkgconfig /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/akonadi.pc /usr/share /usr/share/config /usr/share/config/akonadi /usr/share/config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc /usr/share/config/akonadi/mysql-global.conf /usr/share/dbus-1 /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Agent.Control.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Agent.Status.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.AgentManager.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.ControlManager.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.DebugInterface.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.NotificationManager.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Preprocessor.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Server.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Tracer.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.TracerNotification.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/services /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Control.service /usr/share/mime /usr/share/mime/packages /usr/share/mime/packages/akonadi-mime.xml * Searching for akonadi ... * Contents of kde-base/akonadi-4.3.95: /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/akonadiconsole /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/libakonadi-kcal_next.so -> libakonadi-kcal_next.so.4 /usr/lib64/libakonadi-kcal_next.so.4 -> libakonadi-kcal_next.so.4.4.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadi-kcal_next.so.4.4.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadi_next.so -> libakonadi_next.so.4 /usr/lib64/libakonadi_next.so.4 -> libakonadi_next.so.4.4.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadi_next.so.4.4.0 /usr/share /usr/share/applications /usr/share/applications/kde4 /usr/share/applications/kde4/akonadiconsole.desktop /usr/share/apps /usr/share/apps/akonadiconsole /usr/share/apps/akonadiconsole/akonadiconsoleui.rc /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/akonadi-4.3.95 /usr/share/doc/akonadi-4.3.95/README.xz # q list akonadi /usr/bin/akonadiserver /usr/bin/akonadictl /usr/bin/akonadi_control /usr/include/akonadi/private/capabilities_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/xdgbasedirs_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/protocol_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/notificationmessage_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/imapset_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/imapparser_p.h /usr/include/akonadi/private/akonadiprotocolinternals_export.h /usr/lib64/libakonadiprotocolinternals.so.1.3.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so.1.3.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so /usr/lib64/libakonadiprivate.so.1 /usr/lib64/libakonadiprotocolinternals.so /usr/lib64/libakonadiprotocolinternals.so.1 /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/akonadi.pc /usr/lib64/cmake/Akonadi/AkonadiConfig.cmake /usr/lib64/cmake/Akonadi/AkonadiConfigVersion.cmake /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Control.service /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.DebugInterface.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.TracerNotification.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Server.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.ControlManager.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Resource.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Agent.Status.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Agent.Control.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Tracer.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.Preprocessor.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.NotificationManager.xml /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.Akonadi.AgentManager.xml /usr/share/mime/packages/akonadi-mime.xml /usr/share/config/akonadi/mysql-global.conf /usr/share/config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc /usr/bin/akonadiconsole /usr/lib64/libakonadi-kcal_next.so.4.4.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadi_next.so.4.4.0 /usr/lib64/libakonadi_next.so /usr/lib64/libakonadi_next.so.4 /usr/lib64/libakonadi-kcal_next.so /usr/lib64/libakonadi-kcal_next.so.4 /usr/share/apps/akonadiconsole/akonadiconsoleui.rc /usr/share/applications/kde4/akonadiconsole.desktop /usr/share/doc/akonadi-4.3.95/README.xz
q list --help: -e, --exact * Exact match (only CAT/PN or PN without PV) is what you want.
It's not supposed to work unless your system is in the correct state. With the current state of your system, it won't work because both packages appear to own the same file. In order to bring it back to the correct state, make a backup copy of /usr/bin/akonadiserver, uninstall one of the packages, and then restore the backup copy of /usr/bin/akonadiserver. Then if you try to re-merge the package that you've just unistalled, it should result in a collision.
Oh, apparently you've just been confused by the way that qlist matches the akonadi argument to akonadi-server.
Dennis, comment #3 is correct.