File collision happened during the installation of dvipdfmx-20090708: * Detected file collision(s): * /usr/bin/ebb * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * app-text/dvipdfm-0.13.2d-r1 * /usr/bin/ebb ------ This collision did not happen in dvipdfmx-20071115-r1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge =app-text/dvipdfm-0.13.2d-r1 2. emerge =dvipdfmx-20090708 Actual Results: * Detected file collision(s): * /usr/bin/ebb * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * app-text/dvipdfm-0.13.2d-r1 * /usr/bin/ebb Expected Results: Installation succeeds.
Created attachment 212255 [details, diff] remove offending symlink /usr/bin/ebb is just symlink to dvipdfmx, thus may be safely omitted from installation.
*** Bug 296876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
found some fun info : first, I had two versions of Kile (kde latex editor) installed (2.0.3-r1 and 2.1_beta3). second, the only package needing dvipdfm in my system was media-video/dirac. unsetting the doc useflag, dvipdfm is no longer required for dirac. so, I added > media-video/dirac -doc into /etc/portage/package.use, unmerged both versions of kile, dvipdfm, dvipdfmx to make sure, and then just re-emerged kile (with deps). so, for me, this issue is resolved. should maybe inform dirac maintainer (or upstream) to stop using dvipdfm in favor of dvipdfmx ?
*** Bug 297783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed, thanks for patch.