Bug 285317 – /usr/sbin/sendmail collision with net-mail/mailwrapper

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Dan Thorson 2009-09-17 13:49:25 UTC]

emerge -uDNatv sendmail fails due to collision of /usr/sbin/sendmail with package net-mail/mailwrapper-0.2.1

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -uDNatv sendmail
2.
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Actual Results:  
 * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other
 * packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq
 * owners / <filename>` to identify the installed package that owns a
 * file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do
 * NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at
 * least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s).
 * If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from
 * then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough
 * information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file
 * a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which
 * two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file
 * a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message.
 * 
 * Detected file collision(s):
 * 
 *      /usr/sbin/sendmail
 * 
 * Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
 * 
 * Press Ctrl-C to Stop
 * 
 * net-mail/mailwrapper-0.2.1
 *      /usr/sbin/sendmail
 * 
 * Package 'mail-mta/sendmail-8.14.0' NOT merged due to file collisions.
 * If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the
 * above message.

Expected Results:  
should not have had collision

Reporting bug since it appears both sendmail and mailwrapper are trying to install the same file... hopefully I have not misunderstood the guideline for reporting this kind of bug!

[Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2009-09-19 08:35:17 UTC]

Fixed. If you install sendmail with USE=-mailwrapper  then net-mail/mailwrapper shouldn't be installed.