Older versions of tkcvs (prior to 8.x) used to provide tkdiff themselves. Newer versions of tkcvs has a depend on tkdiff. So, tkdiff should refuse to install on systems that have say tkcvs-7.2.1 Not doing so results in file clobbering Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install tkcvs 7.x (no longer in portage tree) 2. Install tkdiff-1.4.3 Actual Results: (with collision protect on) * checking 2 files for package collisions * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other * packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq * owners / <filename>` to identify the installed package that owns a * file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do * NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at * least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s). * If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from * then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough * information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file * a bug report at http://bugs.gentoo.org unless you report exactly which * two packages install the same file(s). Once again, please do NOT file * a bug report unless you have completely understood the above message. * * package dev-tcltk/tkdiff-4.1.3 NOT merged * * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/bin/tkdiff * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * dev-util/tkcvs-7.2.1 * /usr/bin/tkdiff
Seeing it done wrong so often: Please remember that packages need to block each other mutually.
Problems is solved in tkcvs-8* -tkdiff is removed from tkcvs tarball -tkcvs depend on tkdiff Please close the bug.
closing bug, as =tkcvs-7* doesn't exist anymore in portage
