35911 – emerge sync fails with "Cannot update binary: Destination exists"

Bug 35911 - emerge sync fails with "Cannot update binary: Destination exists"

Summary: emerge sync fails with "Cannot update binary: Destination exists"

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 26674

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2003-12-15 20:33 UTC by Tom Geiger
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:20 UTC (History)
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Description Tom Geiger 2003-12-15 20:33:16 UTC

# emerge sync
....bunch of stuff....
>>> Updating Portage cache...  ...done!



Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2003
(Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
......................!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists.
!!! sys-apps/genflags-0.94-r1 -> app-portage/genflags-0.94-r1
.......................................



 ** Skipping packages. Run 'fixpackages' or set it in FEATURES to fix the
    tbz2's in the packages directory. Note: This can take a very long time.

# emerge -V
Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.20-xfs-r4)

# ls /usr/portage/sys-apps/genflags
ls: /usr/portage/sys-apps/genflags: No such file or directory

# ls /usr/portage/app-portage/genflags
ChangeLog  files                    genflags-0.94.ebuild
Manifest   genflags-0.94-r1.ebuild  metadata.xml

# fixpackages


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2002
(Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
...............................................................................$


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2002
(Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
...............................................................................$


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/1Q-2003
(Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
...............................************************************************$


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/2Q-2003
(Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
...............................................................................$


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/3Q-2003
(Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
...............................................................................$
!!! sys-apps/raidtools-1.00.3-r1 -> sys-fs/raidtools-1.00.3-r1
......!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists.
!!! app-admin/dosfstools-2.8-r3 -> sys-fs/dosfstools-2.8-r3
..................*************************************************************$


Performing Global Updates: /usr/portage/profiles/updates/4Q-2003
(Could take a couple minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
  .='update pass'  *='binary update'  @='/var/db move'
......................!!! Cannot update binary: Destination exists.
!!! sys-apps/genflags-0.94-r1 -> app-portage/genflags-0.94-r1
.......................................****************************************$

Done.


If I manually remove the directories, then fixpackages and emerge sync are ok. If I then run emerge sync again, I run into the same problem.

BTW, this is my first bug report, if there's anything missing or wrong, please let me know.

Thanks

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2003-12-15 23:24:15 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 26674 ***