Bug 295235

Summary:	dvipdfmx-20090708 and dvipdfm-0.13.2d-r1 collide at /usr/bin/ebb
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roby <robbyjo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	TeX project <tex>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bircoph, cjk, eugene.shalygin, gentoo, joost.ruis, madcored, md401, michael.schachtebeck, nicodache, printing, rose, scarabeus, sven.koehler, zeekec
Priority:	High	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	remove offending symlink

Description Roby 2009-11-30 18:53:26 UTC

File collision happened during the installation of dvipdfmx-20090708:
* Detected file collision(s):
*      /usr/bin/ebb
* Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
* Press Ctrl-C to Stop
* app-text/dvipdfm-0.13.2d-r1
*      /usr/bin/ebb
------
This collision did not happen in dvipdfmx-20071115-r1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =app-text/dvipdfm-0.13.2d-r1
2. emerge =dvipdfmx-20090708

Actual Results:  
* Detected file collision(s):
*      /usr/bin/ebb
* Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
* Press Ctrl-C to Stop
* app-text/dvipdfm-0.13.2d-r1
*      /usr/bin/ebb


Expected Results:  
Installation succeeds.

Comment 1 Andrew Savchenko gentoo-dev

2009-12-06 17:55:18 UTC

Created attachment 212255 [details, diff]
remove offending symlink

/usr/bin/ebb is just symlink to dvipdfmx, thus may be safely omitted from installation.

Comment 2 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2009-12-15 10:23:59 UTC

*** Bug 296876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 nicodache 2009-12-25 13:45:46 UTC

found some fun info :
first, I had two versions of Kile (kde latex editor) installed (2.0.3-r1 and 2.1_beta3).
second, the only package needing dvipdfm in my system was media-video/dirac.
unsetting the doc useflag, dvipdfm is no longer required for dirac.

so, I added 
> media-video/dirac -doc
into /etc/portage/package.use, unmerged both versions of kile, dvipdfm, dvipdfmx to make sure, and then just re-emerged kile (with deps).

so, for me, this issue is resolved.

should maybe inform dirac maintainer (or upstream) to stop using dvipdfm in favor of dvipdfmx ?

Comment 4 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2009-12-30 21:12:39 UTC

*** Bug 297783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-01-08 17:41:19 UTC

Fixed, thanks for patch.