19:11:31 askwar@alturo:~/tmp/m
19:11:31 askwar@alturo:~/tmp/müll/httpd-2.0.52 $ sudo emerge -vat mutt Password: These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] mail-client/mutt-1.5.6-r4 -cjk +crypt -debug +imap +mbox +nls -nntp +slang +ssl -vanilla 2,903 kB [ebuild N ] net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 0 kB Total size of downloads: 2,903 kB Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] >>> emerge (1 of 2) net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 to / >>> Unpacking source... >>> Source unpacked. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 >>> Install mailbase-0.00-r6 into /var/tmp/portage/mailbase-0.00-r6/image/ category net-mail man: prepallstrip: strip: >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/mailbase-0.00-r6/image/ * checking 3 files for package collisions existing file /var/spool/mail/.keep is not owned by this package * spend 0.00223588943481 seconds checking for file collisions * This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite * files belonging to other packages (see messages above). * If you have no clue what this is all about report it * as a bug for this package on http://bugs.gentoo.org package net-mail/mailbase-0.00-r6 NOT merged No package files given... Grabbing a set. 20:41:06 askwar@alturo:~/tmp/müll/httpd-2.0.52 $ epm -qf /var/spool/mail/.keep courier-0.47 Uh? I suppose, that's wrong as well :) That file shouldn't be owned by anyone, should it? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 20:43:50 askwar@alturo:~ $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r3.PHP2.4kb.cleaned.no-preempt.05 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r3.PHP2.4kb.cleaned.no-preempt.05 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -O2 -march=pentium4" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp:// mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth- aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http:/ /194.117.158.29/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 apm arts async avi bzlib crypt cscope cups curl curlwrappers diet djbfft encode exif fam flash foomaticdb ftp fwdzone gd gdbm gif hal hardened iconv imagemagick imap imlib immqt-bc ithreads javascript jpeg ldap libedit libg++ libwww lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir mailwrapper mbox mmap mmx mng mpeg mysql ncurses nls no-old-linux noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces nptl offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam parse-clocks pcntl pcre pdflib perl pic pie png posix postgres pwdb python qt quicktime readline recode sasl sdl shared slang sockets spell sse ssl sysvipc tcpd tiff truetype unicode vhosts x86 xfs xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de"
Merged latest ~ARCH and no collisions. And latest courier doesn't keepdir /var/spool/mail Try upgrading courier. Doesn't look like a mailbase or mutt bug. Cheers, Ferdy
