I think this is probably a simple bug somewhere in the ebuild for mailbase where it is putting in one too many slashes when testing for file collisions. This also brings up no results in equery: equery belongs //etc/pam.d/imap Whereas this shows what is expected: equery belongs /etc/pam.d/imape This is easy to get past, by just deleting those four files manually, but I wanted to log it in case it went unnoticed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -1 mailbase Actual Results: * Checking for possible file collisions... * //etc/pam.d/imap exists and wasn't provided by mailbase * //etc/pam.d/imap4 exists and wasn't provided by mailbase * //etc/pam.d/imap4s exists and wasn't provided by mailbase * //etc/pam.d/imaps exists and wasn't provided by mailbase * Those files listed above have to be removed in order to * install this version of mailbase. Expected Results: Clean merge. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 12 2005, 12:18:20)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/vim /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.isp.net.au/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://mirror.isp.net.au/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi aim alsa apache2 apm avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib crypt cups curl curlwrappers dio eds emboss encode esd ethereal evo fam fbcon foomaticdb freetds ftp gd gdbm gif gpgme gpm gtk gtk+ gtk2 iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb ipv6 ithreads jabber java jpeg junit kdexdeltas kerberos krb4 lcms ldap lesstif libg++ libwww mad mbox mcal mikmod mime mono motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn mssql mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl php png posix ppds pthreads python qt quicktime readline samba sdl session shared sharedmem simplexml slang slp sndfile sockets spell spl sse sse2 ssl svga symlink sysvipc tcpd tetex threads tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis wmf xml xml2 xmlrpc xpm xv yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
The check is removed in mailbase-1. See Bug 94820, comment #2. And no, this is (was) not a bug, it was a feature to prevent people from reporting collision-protect problems and advise them how to solve this.
