Turning on collision-protect FEATURE prevents building =sys-apps/man-db-2.5.7 because of collision /usr/bin/zsoelim. The emerge output with turned off the collision-protect FEATURE is: * Messages for package sys-apps/man-db-2.5.7: * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other * packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq * owners / <filename>` to identify the installed package that owns a * file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do * NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at * least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s). * If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from * then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough * information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file * a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which * two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file * a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message. * * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/bin/zsoelim * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * None of the installed packages claim the file(s). * * Package 'sys-apps/man-db-2.5.7' merged despite file collisions. If * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. # equery b /usr/bin/zsoelim [ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/zsoelim in *... ] sys-apps/man-db-2.5.7 (/usr/bin/zsoelim) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Check if collision-protect FEATURE is turned on, if not --- do it. 2. Try to emerge =sys-apps/man-db-2.5.7 Actual Results: Installation fails. Expected Results: Successful installation. $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r7-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-lang/python: 2.4.6, 2.5.4-r4, 2.6.4-r1, 3.1.2-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA GPL* skype-eula" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/conf.d/clock /etc/rc.conf /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests buildsyspkg distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.corbina.net/pub/Linux/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.aiya.ru/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.org.kemsu.ru/gentoo/ http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/ distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="ru_RU.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="ru en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC=" rsync://rsync.ru.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dvd ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gif gtk iconv jpeg kpathsea modules mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg openmp pam pcre pdf perl png pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode utf8 v4l2 vorbis x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hp1018" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="ru en_GB" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev nv vga vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This kind of behavior is expected when replacing an orphaned file. This is why FEATURES=protected-owned is enabled by default, instead of collision-protect.
his equery output says that man-db does own it
(In reply to comment #2) > his equery output says that man-db does own it He turned off collision-protect and the message is from protect-owned, as indicated by the 'merged despite file collisions' part of the message. Since man-db was actually merged, equery shows it as the owner now.
