32930 – whois ebuild and bwwhois ebuild have files that overwrite each other.

Bug 32930 - whois ebuild and bwwhois ebuild have files that overwrite each other.

Summary: whois ebuild and bwwhois ebuild have files that overwrite each other.

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Brandy Westcott (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2003-11-06 21:57 UTC by Chris Case
Modified:	2003-11-17 22:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Chris Case 2003-11-06 21:57:56 UTC

Emerging /usr/portage/net-misc/whois/whois-4.6.6-r2.ebuild, then
/usr/portage/net-misc/bwwhois/bwwhois-3.4.ebuild, overwrites files from whois. 
Specifically /usr/bin/whois and /usr/share/man/man1/whois.1.gz

Which breaks either one or the other depending on which order you emerge them, 
consequently unemerging the broken whois, will break the existing one too, (so
that you have to re-emerge it again to work.

It seems to me that bwwhois should be named bwwhois and not whois, or there
should be some kind of block so that you cannot emerge both whois and bwwhois on
the same system.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  emerge whois
2.  emerge bwwhois
3.  

Actual Results:  
whois binary and man page were overwritten by bwwhois

Expected Results:  
bwwhois should not have overwritten the files of whois.

A quick qpkg -l verifies this:

ccase@coke etc $ qpkg -l whois
net-misc/whois-4.6.6-r2 *
CONTENTS:
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/whois
/usr/bin/mkpasswd
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/whois.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkpasswd.1.gz
/usr/share/locale
/usr/share/locale/de
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/el
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/es
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/it
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/no
/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/whois.mo
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/whois-4.6.6-r2
/usr/share/doc/whois-4.6.6-r2/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/whois-4.6.6-r2/whois.conf.gz
/usr/share/doc/whois-4.6.6-r2/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/whois-4.6.6-r2/copyright.gz


net-misc/bwwhois-3.4 *
CONTENTS:
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/bwwhois
/usr/bin/whois -> bwwhois
/usr/share
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/whois.1.gz
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/bwInclude.pm
/etc
/etc/whois
/etc/whois/whois.conf
/etc/whois/tld.conf
/etc/whois/sd.conf

Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-13 08:11:05 UTC

how about just remove
 dosym bwwhois /usr/bin/whois
 ?

Comment 2 Brandy Westcott (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-16 03:04:38 UTC

Thanks for the bug report Chris. I've removed the binary symlink and changed the name of the bwwhois manpage. :)

Comment 3 Chris Case 2003-11-17 22:36:56 UTC

Brandy,

Wonderful, it looks good.

Thanks for taking the time and listening to me =)