Bug 69875 – files of sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5 collide with another package in system

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Wojciech Milkowski 2004-11-02 13:10:07 UTC]

During emerge of sys-apps/shadow-4.0.5 this error occurs:

>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/shadow-4.0.5/image/

* checking 278 files for package collisions
existing file /usr/share/man/man3/getspnam.3.gz is not owned by this package
existing file /usr/share/man/man5/passwd.5.gz is not owned by this package
* spend 0.95956492424 seconds checking for file collisions
* This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite
* files belonging to other packages (see messages above).

emerge info:

Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.2, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041021-r0, 2.6.9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.4
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache collision-protect distlocks maketest nostrip sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/wojtek"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aalib acpi alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cscope cups dga divx dvd encode esd f77 faad flac flash foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx mmx2 motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png posix postgres python quicktime readline sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff truetype wmf x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
emerge sync; emerge -u sys-apps/shadow

[Comment 1 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2004-11-02 15:50:34 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69781 ***