Bug 325119 – x11-libs/libX11-1.3.4 build failed: file collisions

• Product: Gentoo/Alt
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Florian CROUZAT (SuperFlo) 2010-06-22 21:35:58 UTC]

Updating from libX11 1.3.3 to 1.3.4 failed. I suspect the error to be trivial, but I never saw such a thing before, hence the bug, so you can tell me how to deal with it ? Manually delete the file and re-emerge maybe ?
Also note that I tried the update to see if my x64-macos was a candidate for the bug 325087, it appears I'm not.

Compilation errors:

>>> Installing (1 of 1) x11-libs/libX11-1.3.4
 * checking 1027 files for package collisions
1000 files checked ...
 * 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.
 * 
 * package x11-libs/libX11-1.3.4 NOT merged
 * 
 * Detected file collision(s):
 * 
 *      /Users/superflo/Gentoo/usr/share/man/man3/XkbGetDetectableAutoRepeat.3.bz2
 *      /Users/superflo/Gentoo/usr/share/man/man3/XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat.3.bz2
 * 
 * Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
 * 
 * Press Ctrl-C to Stop
 * 
 * None of the installed packages claim the file(s).
 * 
 * Package 'x11-libs/libX11-1.3.4' NOT merged due to file collisions. If
 * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the
 * above message.

>>> Failed to install x11-libs/libX11-1.3.4, Log file:

>>>  '/Users/superflo/Gentoo/var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/libX11-1.3.4/temp/build.log'

[Comment 1 Florian CROUZAT (SuperFlo) 2010-06-22 21:42:47 UTC]

Actually reading the collision message I pasted, it appears I shouldn't have openned a bug because there is not /two/ files  but none, owing the file ?
Anyway, this message doesn't tell me how to resolve such problem.
"You should simply ignore the collision" : I wish I could, but how ? Removing the file manually ? Doesn't look like ignoring. Help appreciated ;)

I'll change the severity to trivial.

[Comment 2 Jonathan Callen (RETIRED) 2010-06-23 02:33:19 UTC]

To ignore a file collision when no package owns the file, you must use FEATURES="-collision-protect"; to ignore it when another package *does* on the file, you must use FEATURES="-collision-protect -protect-owned"

[Comment 3 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2010-06-28 20:46:31 UTC]

notabug, user support case was answered in comment #2 :)