Bug 297880 – www-client/chromium file collision in home dir with games-action/chromium

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description chris 2009-12-22 08:32:39 UTC]

Uh...  yeah...  not a good idea to name to programs the same thing.
'www-client/chromium' has a file collision in user's home directory when attempting to install while the videogame 'games-action/chromium' is already installed.

It took hours to compile www-client/chromium on my system, only to fail because of a stupid file collision.  I was so mad, I just shut the system down without noting the file name.  So, to reproduce, just install games-action/chromium followed by www-client/chromium.

Personally, I'd rather keep the videogame ;)

[Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2009-12-22 19:56:15 UTC]

Sorry for asking you to compile it second time, but I just tried emerging chromium-4.0.249.43 with games-action/chromium installed and didn't experience any problems. Could you post the exact error you're getting?

If you want to try saving some time, please try chromium-bin first.

[Comment 2 chris 2009-12-22 20:33:40 UTC]

<insert gigantic sigh>...  Anything for free/open-source software ;)

...see you next year...

[Comment 3 chris 2009-12-31 21:57:47 UTC]

>>> Installing (1 of 1) www-client/chromium-4.0.266.0
 * checking 423 files for package collisions
 * 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/share/applications/chromium-chromium.desktop
 *
 * Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
 *
 * Press Ctrl-C to Stop
 *
 * games-action/chromium-0.9.13.3
 *      /usr/share/applications/chromium-chromium.desktop
 *
 * Package 'www-client/chromium-4.0.266.0' NOT merged due to file
 * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole
 * content of the above message.

>>> Failed to install www-client/chromium-4.0.266.0, Log file:

[Comment 4 chris 2009-12-31 22:09:18 UTC]

Created attachment 214801 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 5 chris 2009-12-31 22:11:27 UTC]

Created attachment 214803 [details]
build.log

(careful, it's 12+ megs!)

[Comment 6 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2009-12-31 22:14:12 UTC]

Thanks for checking this!

Please update your games-action/chromium package. Version 0.9.13.3 is no longer in the tree, and the current version 0.9.14 doesn't have this problem.

For reference, some listings from my system:

$ equery files games-action/chromium | grep desktop
/usr/share/applications/chromium-bsu-chromium.desktop
$ equery files www-client/chromium | grep desktop
/usr/share/applications/chromium-chromium.desktop
$ equery files www-client/chromium-bin | grep desktop
/usr/share/applications/chromium-bin-chromium-bin.desktop