Bug 122751 – app-text/poppler-0.5.0-r4 tries to overwrite files owned by xpdf

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Sascha Silbe 2006-02-13 19:00:03 UTC]

app-text/poppler-0.5.0-r4 tries to overwrite files owned by xpdf:

[...]
strip: i586-pc-linux-gnu-strip --strip-unneeded
   usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0.0.0
   usr/bin/pdftotext
   usr/bin/pdftoppm
   usr/bin/pdftops
   usr/bin/pdftohtml
   usr/bin/pdfimages
   usr/bin/pdffonts
   usr/bin/pdfinfo
making executable: /usr/lib/libpoppler.so.0.0.0
>>> Completed installing poppler-0.5.0-r4 into /var/tmp/portage/portage/poppler-0.5.0-r4/image/

* checking 110 files for package collisions
existing file /usr/bin/pdftoppm is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/share/man/man1/pdftoppm.1.gz is not owned by this package
* spent 0.275012016296 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 app-text/poppler-0.5.0-r4 NOT merged

No package files given... Grabbing a set.
root@cube:~# emerge -pv xpdf

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] app-text/poppler-0.5.0-r4 [0.4.3-r4] -cairo +jpeg +zlib 0 kB 
[ebuild     U ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r7 [3.01-r5] +nodrm 0 kB 

Total size of downloads: 0 kB
root@cube:~# equery belongs /usr/bin/pdftoppm
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/pdftoppm in *... ]
app-text/xpdf-3.01-r5 (/usr/bin/pdftoppm)
root@cube:~# grep pdftopnm /usr/portage/app-text/xpdf/ChangeLog 
root@cube:~# grep pdftopnm /usr/portage/app-text/xpdf/xpdf-3.01-r7.ebuild 
root@cube:~# grep pdftopnm /usr/portage/app-text/xpdf/xpdf-3.01-r5.ebuild 
root@cube:~#

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-02-14 00:56:01 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121545 ***

[Comment 2 Sascha Silbe 2006-02-14 04:49:45 UTC]

Sorry for the dupe - Bugzilla latterly defaults to only search for NEW bugs, so I didn't find this RESOLVED one.