Bug 401221

Summary:	=x11-misc/efax-gtk-3.2.9 file collisions
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Fabio Rossi <rossi.f>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Desktop Misc. Team <desktop-misc>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Fabio Rossi 2012-01-28 19:33:10 UTC

I get the following error during the emerge process:

>>> Installing (2 of 2) x11-misc/efax-gtk-3.2.9
 * checking 33 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/man/man1/efax.1.bz2
 *      /usr/share/man/man1/efix.1.bz2
 * 
 * Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
 * 
 * Press Ctrl-C to Stop
 * 
 * net-misc/efax-0.9a-r2
 *      /usr/share/man/man1/efax.1.bz2
 *      /usr/share/man/man1/efix.1.bz2
 * 
 * Package 'x11-misc/efax-gtk-3.2.9' NOT merged due to file collisions.
 * If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the
 * above message.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-28 20:10:45 UTC

x11-misc/efax-gtk has it's own copy of efax so you shouldn't need net-misc/efax, but with that said, I've fixed the file collision by renaming those manpages:

  28 Jan 2012; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> efax-gtk-3.2.9.ebuild:
  Rename efax.1 to efax-0.9a.1 and efix.1 to efix-0.9a.1 in order to prevent
  file collision with net-misc/efax wrt #401221 by Fabio Rossi

Comment 2 Fabio Rossi 2012-01-30 22:45:03 UTC

Wouldn't be better to block efax and efax-gtk from being installed at the same time?

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-30 22:54:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Wouldn't be better to block efax and efax-gtk from being installed at the same
> time?

You tell me? I've just retained the old behavior, and allowed them to be installed parallel. I suppose there must have been reason to do that in the first place?

Comment 4 Fabio Rossi 2012-01-31 16:32:35 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)

> You tell me? I've just retained the old behavior, and allowed them to be
> installed parallel. I suppose there must have been reason to do that in the
> first place?

Uhm, I don't the reasons but I was not aware efax-gtk ships with an embedded version of efax until this bug came out.