66914 – pcmcia-cs tries to install /usr/share/misc as a file

Bug 66914 - pcmcia-cs tries to install /usr/share/misc as a file

Summary: pcmcia-cs tries to install /usr/share/misc as a file

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Mobile Herd (OBSOLETE)

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Keywords:	InVCS

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Blocks:	68964
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Reported:	2004-10-09 13:09 UTC by Marius Mauch (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-04-12 12:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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The offending file (misc,19.76 KB, text/plain) 2004-10-09 13:10 UTC, Marius Mauch (RETIRED)	Details
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Description Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-09 13:09:38 UTC

>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-r2/image/

* checking 108 files for package collisions
existing file /usr/share/misc is not owned by this package
* spend 0.605881929398 seconds checking for file collisions
* This package is blocked because it wants to overwrite
* files belonging to other packages (see messages above).
* If you have no clue what this is all about report it 
* as a bug for this package on http://bugs.gentoo.org

/usr/share/misc already exists as a directory on virtually all gentoo systems and is used by many packages. I've attached the file generated by pcmcia-cs.

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-09 13:10:48 UTC

Created attachment 41429 [details]
The offending file

Comment 2 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-10-18 06:37:54 UTC

A simple 'dodir /usr/share/misc' should do it.

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-04 16:58:38 UTC

any news on this?

Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-12-05 01:00:00 UTC

latexer is working on a pcmcia-cs version bump/clean-up/bug-fix afaik.

Comment 5 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-04-12 12:09:37 UTC

Fixed in sys-apps/pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-r4