Bug 850955 – gnome-extra/chrome-gnome-shell-10-r5: Installation of a directory is blocked by a file

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Pacho Ramos 2022-06-10 07:55:42 UTC]

I don't know why this happens, but I get this when updating my systems:
ERROR: preinst

Installation of a directory is blocked by a file:
  '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chrome_gnome_shell-0.0.0-py3.9.egg-info'
This file will be renamed to a different name:
  '/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chrome_gnome_shell-0.0.0-py3.9.egg-info.backup.0000'

Thanks

[Comment 1 nE0sIghT 2022-06-10 07:59:18 UTC]

Is it output from chrome-gnome-shell emerge?
Is it upgrade or new install?

Installation fails? Could you please attach build.log?

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2022-06-10 09:09:05 UTC]

The problem is that I cannot retrieve the build.log from that systems as merge succeeded at the end after the renaming. 

Maybe the bug was long time ago due to python eclasses, as it seems old /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chrome_gnome_shell-0.0.0-py3.9.egg-info.backup.0000 is a file containing:
Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: chrome-gnome-shell
Version: 0.0.0
Summary: Provides integration with GNOME Shell extensions repository for Chrome browser
Home-page: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShellIntegrationForChrome
Author: Yuri Konotopov
Author-email: UNKNOWN
License: UNKNOWN
Description: UNKNOWN
Platform: UNKNOWN

And now is a directory with:
# ls -l /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chrome_gnome_shell-0.0.0-py3.9.egg-info
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1 jun 10 11:03 dependency_links.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292 jun 10 11:03 PKG-INFO
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 286 jun 10 11:03 SOURCES.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  11 jun 10 11:03 top_level.txt

But I am not sure... in that case we could probably close this as the bug shouldn't reappear :/

[Comment 3 Sam James 2022-06-10 09:15:12 UTC]

Could you run qfile -o /usr/lib/python3.*/site-packages/*egg* and backup then remove all the results?

Then let us know if it happens again? It's possible this is from some bad package in the past

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2022-06-10 10:03:03 UTC]

I get this:
# qfile -o /usr/lib/python3.*/site-packages/*egg* 
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/chrome_gnome_shell-0.0.0-py3.9.egg-info.backup.0000


It was probably something that was wrong like 6 months ago in stable as I think all the systems updated from there showed this for chrome-gnome-shell ... in any case ,I think current package is installing the things properly... then probably is not going to happen again in the future

[Comment 5 nE0sIghT 2022-07-23 09:46:44 UTC]

Package build system was switched to meson in 42.0 so egg information will not be generated anymore.