Trying to install dev-python/cffi with FEATURES=test fails because of file collisions. Without FEATURES=test, installation succeeds. * Messages for package dev-python/cffi-0.7.2: * 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). See * http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Blockers for tips on how to * solve the problem. And once again, please do NOT file a bug report * unless you have completely understood the above message. * * package dev-python/cffi-0.7.2 NOT merged * * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/easy_install.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/pkg_resources.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/archive_util.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/compat.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/depends.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/extension.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/package_index.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/py24compat.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/py27compat.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/script template (dev).py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/script template.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/site-patch.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/ssl_support.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/alias.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_rpm.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_wininst.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/build_ext.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/build_py.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/develop.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/egg_info.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/install.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/install_egg_info.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/install_lib.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/install_scripts.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/register.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/rotate.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/saveopts.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/sdist.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/setopt.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/test.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/upload.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/upload_docs.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/__init__.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/doctest.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/py26compat.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/server.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_bdist_egg.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_build_ext.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_develop.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_dist_info.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_easy_install.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_egg_info.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_markerlib.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_resources.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_sandbox.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_sdist.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_test.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/test_upload_docs.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/tests/__init__.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/_backport/__init__.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/_backport/hashlib/_sha.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/_backport/hashlib/_sha256.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/_backport/hashlib/_sha512.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/_backport/hashlib/__init__.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/_markerlib/markers.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/_markerlib/__init__.py * * Searching all installed packages for file collisions... * * Press Ctrl-C to Stop * * dev-python/setuptools-1.1.6:0::gentoo * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/easy_install.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/pkg_resources.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/archive_util.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/alias.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_egg.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_rpm.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/command/bdist_wininst.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/compat.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/depends.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/extension.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/package_index.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/py24compat.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/py27compat.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/sandbox.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/script template (dev).py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/script template.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/site-patch.py * /usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/setuptools/ssl_support.py * * Package 'dev-python/cffi-0.7.2' NOT merged due to file collisions. If * necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole content of the * above message. # emerge --info Portage 2.2.7 (hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib, gcc-4.8.1, glibc-2.17, 3.11.6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.11.6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3720QM_CPU_@_2.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16383680 total, 13038916 free KiB Swap: 17825788 total, 17825788 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r4, 3.3.2-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1, 4.8.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.11 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: science preview gentoo flipsafe modelica teaching testing ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -mtune=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict test unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=gnu" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/science /var/lib/portage-local/preview /usr/portage /var/lib/portage-local/flipsafe /var/lib/portage-local/modelica /var/lib/portage-local/teaching /var/lib/portage-local/testing" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 acl acpi alsa amd64 avx berkdb bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdparanoia cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd fam ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig fortran gdbm gif gimp gmp gnutls gtk hardened iconv icu idn ipv6 jpeg justify lame lcms libnotify mad matroska mmap mmx mmxext modules mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses networkmanager nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre png policykit ppds readline sasl sdl session sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4_1 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode vorbis x264 xattr xcb xinerama xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i965 intel nouveau" XFCE_PLUGINS="brightness logout menu trash" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.3" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set FEATURES=test 2. emerge dev-python/cffi-0.7.2 Actual Results: Installation fails due to file collisions. Expected Results: Installation succeeds without file collisions.
Created attachment 362290 [details] build.log
Looks like it's trying to install its own version of setuptools.
Created attachment 363484 [details] build.log for cffi-0.8 It still happens with cffi-0.8.
I too see this with dev-python/cffi-0.8 on ~amd64.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 486736 ***