Bug 234732 – dev-tex/sketch-0.2.131 and media-gfx/skencil-0.6.18_pre20080519 file collision '/usr/bin/sketch'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Kornel 2008-08-14 13:56:40 UTC]

dev-tex/sketch-0.2.131 and media-gfx/skencil-0.6.18_pre20080519 install a file in the same place /usr/bin/sketch

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install both packages.
Actual Results:  
Collision occured

Expected Results:  
There's no collision.

kornel@gentoo ~ $ emerge -pv sketch skencil

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-tex/sketch-0.2.131  USE="doc -examples" 0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] media-gfx/skencil-0.6.18_pre20080519  USE="nls" 839 kB

Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 839 kB
kornel@gentoo ~ $ portageq owners / /usr/bin/sketch
dev-tex/sketch-0.2.131
        /usr/bin/sketch
media-gfx/skencil-0.6.18_pre20080519
        /usr/bin/sketch

[Comment 1 Dmitry Dzhus 2008-08-14 19:53:55 UTC]

I didn't know that another program named Sketch «existed» some day.

Suggestions to fix the collisions I can make right now are:

1. Kill Skencil's `/usr/bin/sketch` symlink. In Skencil, both `/usr/bin/sketch and `/usr/bin/skencil` point to the same place, which is `../lib/skencil-0.6.17/skencil.py`. Give a notice upon the package installation about this change. «Skencil» is the «official» program name today, so users are expected to run it typing `skencil`.

2. Rename `/usr/bin/sketch` of Skencil to `/usr/bin/sketch-skencil`, rename `/usr/bin/sketch` of Sketch (the TeX-oriented one) to `/usr/bin/sketch-tex`; maintain a `/usr/bin/sketch` _symlink_ via eselect.

[Comment 2 Alexis Ballier 2008-08-14 20:43:20 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)

> Suggestions to fix the collisions I can make right now are:
> 
> 1. Kill Skencil's `/usr/bin/sketch` symlink. In Skencil, both `/usr/bin/sketch
> and `/usr/bin/skencil` point to the same place, which is
> `../lib/skencil-0.6.17/skencil.py`. Give a notice upon the package installation
> about this change. «Skencil» is the «official» program name today, so users
> are expected to run it typing `skencil`.

I prefer this (and that's what debian is doing afaict if that's worth anything)

[Comment 3 Dmitry Dzhus 2008-08-30 14:46:17 UTC]

I believe now it's up to Hanno to take some action regarding this issue.

[Comment 4 Andrew Savchenko 2009-03-21 15:13:05 UTC]

Problem is still present for skensil-0.6.18_pre20080519-r1 and sketch-0.2.141.

[Comment 5 Andrew Savchenko 2009-03-21 16:18:37 UTC]

Created attachment 185748 [details, diff]
Fix by removing unneeded symlink

[Comment 6 Dmitry Dzhus 2009-05-02 09:30:10 UTC]

It will be great if someone finally commits this fix to the tree.

[Comment 7 Hanno Böck 2010-11-30 03:08:17 UTC]

skencil 0.6 is broken, will add skencil 1.0 alpha which no longer sets a symlink, so no collission any more.