A virtual package should not have the same name & version as it's associated package as one of the packages will be overwritten in {PKGDIR}/All directory. An example with virtual/ffmpeg-0.9 et media-video/ffmpeg-0.9 ... belgix@darwin ~/Linux $ ls -la {PKGDIR}/virtual lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 23 07:16 ffmpeg-0.9.tbz2 -> ../All/ffmpeg-0.9.tbz2 belgix@darwin ~/Linux $ ls -la {PKGDIR}/media-video lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 31 08:04 ffmpeg-0.9.tbz2 -> ../All/ffmpeg-0.9.tbz2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge virtual/ffmpeg-0.9 (this create a small {PKGDIR}/All/ffmpeg-0.9.tbz2 file) 2. emerge media-video/ffmpeg-0.9 (file in 1 is overwritten by a large tbz2 file) 3. emerge virtual/ffmpeg-0.9 again (file in 2 is overwritten again) 4. ... and so on! Expected Results: Just rename virtual/ffmeg-0.9 package to virtual/ffmeg-0 as any other packages in virtual group to fix the problem
It should resolve the collision by moving the previous file into ${PKGDIR}/${CATEGORY}/, as described in this commit: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=2dcc5e159615cacc370645dd26fe81e6e36fb54d *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 133908 ***
