Bug 135882

Summary:	emerging pstree would overwrite file not owned by it
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jonas Bernoulli <jonas>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jonas Bernoulli 2006-06-07 03:09:20 UTC

when emerged with useflag X set:

existing file /bin/pstree.x11 is not owned by this package

/bin/pstree.x11 doesnt seam to belong to any package:

# equery belongs /bin/pstree.x11
[ Searching for file(s) /bin/pstree.x11 in *... ]
#

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-07 03:19:38 UTC

There's no pstree ebuild in portage.

# equery b /bin/pstree.x11
[ Searching for file(s) /bin/pstree.x11 in *... ]
sys-process/psmisc-22.2 (/bin/pstree.x11 -> pstree)

Don't see what are you trying to emerge, anyway - we can't fix collisions w/ orphaned files.