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Bug 210877

Summary: app-admin/quickswitch-1.05 and sci-misc/boinc-5.10.28 both install /usr/bin/switcher
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Dirk Olmes <dirk.olmes>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) <scarabeus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: flameeyes, jelle, sci
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 257231    
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Description Dirk Olmes 2008-02-20 13:43:23 UTC
Installing both app-admin/quickswitch-1.05 and sci-misc/boinc-5.10.28 results in a file collision for /usr/bin/switcher

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




# portageq owners / /usr/bin/switcher
app-admin/quickswitch-1.05
        /usr/bin/switcher
sci-misc/boinc-5.10.28
        /usr/bin/switcher

# epm -qf /usr/bin/switcher
quickswitch-1.05
boinc-5.10.28
Comment 1 Jelle de Plaa 2008-05-18 14:10:11 UTC
Confirmed this bug on amd64 with a newer boinc version (sci-misc/boinc-5.10.45) and app-admin/quickswitch-1.05.
Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-09 15:04:43 UTC
# ChangeLog for sci-misc/boinc
# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sci-misc/boinc/ChangeLog,v 1.45 2009/01/02 20:40:21 cryos Exp $

  02 Jan 2009; Marcus D. Hanwell <cryos@gentoo.org> metadata.xml:
  Removed myself as maintainer.
Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-01-21 15:33:31 UTC
*** Bug 248319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-03-30 14:00:48 UTC
Blocker added :}