Bug 605146

Summary:	sys-power/iasl-20200717 sys-power/pmtools-20110323-r1 file collision: /usr/(s)bin/acpidump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Duncan <1i5t5.duncan>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Robin Johnson <robbat2>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	polynomial-c, prometheanfire
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	690294

Description Duncan 2017-01-09 03:23:17 UTC

I'm attempting to merge sys-apps/fwts, which depends on both sys-power/iasl and sys-power/pmtools.

Unfortunately, both of these install the acpidump binary, pmtools as /usr/sbin/acpidump, iasl as /usr/bin/acpidump.

The problem is that I have the (s)bin merge as well as the /usr merge, with /usr -> . and /sbin -> bin, so the canonical path for both /usr/sbin/acpidump and /usr/bin/acpidump is /bin/acpidump, resulting in a file collision.

If these are the same executable utility, only one should install it.  If they're not or as an alternative if they are, one should be renamed so they don't collide for people with the bin/sbin merge.  As a third alternative I suppose acpidump could be split into another package that both pmtools and iasl depend on...

For now I suppose I can either install_mask one or the other (but which one? I guess the pmtools one since it's version-dated 2011, while the iasl one is version-dated 2016?), or set FEATURES=-collision-protect to merge the second one.

Duncan

Comment 1 Duncan 2022-06-18 08:10:39 UTC

Cleaning up old bugs and came to this one.  Bug still applies. =:^(

I don't have fwts/iasl/pmtools merged by default but the deps are trivial so it was an easy retest.  Still pmtools-20110323-r1, but now iasl-20200717, updating the title accordingly.  Both still required by fwts, but both still provide /usr/(s)bin/acpidump which still results in the file collision for people with merged bin/sbin.  The easiest blind workaround still seems to be installmasking the older pmtools-2011x acpidump to avoid the collision.

Comment 2 Marek Szuba (RETIRED) archtester

2022-11-11 10:44:45 UTC

Still very much present as of today - and it is in fact worse than originally described because sys-power/pmtools itself RDEPENDs on sys-power/iasl.

Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2022-11-13 02:01:34 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a26b6c263f15e33960552e9671b5693cc334943c

commit a26b6c263f15e33960552e9671b5693cc334943c
Author:     Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-11-13 02:00:33 +0000
Commit:     Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2022-11-13 02:00:33 +0000

    sys-power/pmtools: add -pmtools suffix to acpidump
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/605146
    Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>

 .../{pmtools-20110323-r1.ebuild => pmtools-20110323-r2.ebuild}   | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)