Bug 32462 – Openoffice confllicts with sys-apps/star

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Lindsay Haisley 2003-11-01 07:16:16 UTC]

This may be a genuine conflict, but I suspect it's a name conflict of some sort since star is a compression/archive utility and openoffice is a relative of star office, an other animal altogether.  Please excuse me if this is truly a conflict but I thought it best to call it to someone's attention in case it needs to be fixed.

# emerge -p openoffice

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] sys-apps/star (from pkg app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r1)
[ebuild  N    ] app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r1

[Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2003-11-01 07:43:37 UTC]

No, the problem is that openoffice does not work with the tar provided in
star.

[Comment 2 Spider (RETIRED) 2003-11-01 08:50:02 UTC]

but does star really override the "tar" link, and not install as the binary
"star" ? 

[Comment 3 Lindsay Haisley 2003-11-01 19:05:56 UTC]

sys-apps/star is a dependency of amanda, and was emerged as such when I emerged
amanda, so installing amanda (which I absolutely need) prevents the installation
of openoffice (which I would like to have).  This is a bit wonky and needs
to be addressed on one end or the other.

Maybe this needs to be addressed as a bug in the amanda ebuild.

[Comment 4 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) 2003-11-02 03:34:48 UTC]

Standard tar is in /bin/tar and star is in /usr/bin/tar, however openoffice
does not make the difference, so compilation fails if star is installed.
Note that you can safely (re)install star after openoffice is compiled.