Bug 62416 – Porting: glib - charset.alias overwriting

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE

[Description matt mccollow 2004-08-31 12:34:52 UTC]

I try to emerge glib-2.4.6 on my MacOS X 10.3.5 system and it dies, refusing to overwrite an already existing /usr/lib/charset.alias

I cant speak for anyone else, but on my system, /usr/lib/charset.alias contains only the following:

# This file contains a table of character encoding aliases,
# suitable for operating system 'darwin7.0'.
# It was automatically generated from config.charset.
# Packages using this file:

I don't see why there would be a problem in letting glib's install clobber this file.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="macos" emerge glib

Actual Results:  
glib install dies because it doesn't want to overwrite /usr/lib/charset.alias

* checking 280 files for package collisions
existing file /usr/lib/charset.alias is not owned by this package
* spend 0.237250089645 seconds checking for file collisions
* This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite
* files belonging to other packages (see messages above).


Expected Results:  
glib should have installed

Portage 20040726 (default-macos-10.3, gcc-3.3, unavailable, 7.5.0 Power
Macintosh powerpc)
=================================================================
System uname: 7.5.0 Power Macintosh powerpc
macos-20040726
distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
Autoconf: 
Automake: 
Binutils: 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="macos"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protect cvs keepwork"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="macos"

[Comment 1 Robin Munn 2004-09-04 18:44:52 UTC]

See also bug 59283: this problem has existed since at least glib-2.4.4.

[Comment 2 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-09-24 19:22:57 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59283 ***

[Comment 3 Hasan Khalil (RETIRED) 2005-02-06 13:33:30 UTC]

Closing out bugs that've been resolved for a while now...