When emerging the above package with FEATURES=collision-protect, it tries to install /usr/share/locale/locale.alias which conflicts with glibc. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. FEATURES=collision-protect emerge =net-nds/gq-0.6.0 Actual Results: ... >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/gq-0.6.0/image/ * checking 18 files for package collisions existing file /usr/share/local/locale.alias is not owned by this package * spend 0.0774910449982 seconds checking for file collisions * This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite * files belonging to other packages (see messages above). ... Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.7-r4 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect digest distlocks notitles sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/bruce/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm ardour-ksi arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdb cdparanoia cdr cdrom chroot clamav crypt cups curl dbm dga dillo divx4linux djbfft doc dvd dvdr dvdread emacs encode esd ethereal evo exif f77 fam fastcgi ffmpeg flac fluidsynth foomaticdb foreign-package fortran fs ftp gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gnuplot gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hbci i8x0 imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 jack jikes jpeg kde lcd ldap libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox md5sum mikmod mime mmx mng mono mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg mpeg4 mplayer mysql ncurses net nls nptl oggvorbis opengl openssh oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl plotutils png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang sox spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb uudeview v4l v4l2 vim-with-x wifi wmf x86 xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
what is the output of: qpkg -f -v /usr/share/local/locale.alias Have you tried a newer version of gq? env ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge gq Does it have the same fault.
# qpkg -f -v /usr/share/locale/locale.alias sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1 * Both versions 0.7.0_beta2 and 1.0_beta1 result in the same conflict: >>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/gq-1.0_beta1/image/ * checking 20 files for package collisions existing file /usr/share/locale/locale.alias is not owned by this package * spend 0.109563112259 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-nds/gq-1.0_beta1 NOT merged
fixed - thanks for the bug report.