I tried adding root to the portagegroup, but the exact same error occurred, sorry but I'm already stuck. root# groups wheel daemon kmem sys tty operator staff guest admin portage root# emerge -a portage Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 [2.0.51-r15] Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 to / chflags: invalid flag: nosunlnk >>> md5 files ;-) ChangeLog >>> md5 files ;-) metadata.xml >>> md5 files ;-) portage-2.0.51.19.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) portage-2.0.51.21-r1.ebuild >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-portage-2.0.51.19 >>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-portage-2.0.51.21-r1 >>> md5 files ;-) files/portage-2.0.51.21-fixes.patch >>> md5 files ;-) files/README.RESCUE >>> md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.51.19.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking portage-2.0.51.19.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/work >>> Source unpacked. * NOT BUILDING SANDBOX ON ppc >>> Test phase [not enabled]: sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 >>> Install portage-2.0.51.19 into /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/image/ category sys-apps * Not installing sandbox on ppc man: prepallstrip: strip: strip --strip-unneeded strip: strip --strip-unneeded * file /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/image// was installed with group portage! * file /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/image///etc was installed with group portage! * file /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/image///etc/dispatch-conf.conf was installed with group portage! * file /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/image///usr/bin/portageq was installed with group portage! * file /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/image///usr/bin/quickpkg was installed with group portage! [...] * file /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/image///var/tmp was installed with group portage! * file /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/image///var/tmp/.keep was installed with group portage! >>> Completed installing portage-2.0.51.19 into /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.19/image/ * checking 122 files for package collisions existing file /usr/lib/portage/bin/pemerge.py is not owned by this package * spent 0.157086849213 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 package sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 NOT merged No package files given... Grabbing a set. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge portage Actual Results: emerging failed (see details) !!! Relying on the shell to locate gcc, this may break !!! DISTCC, installing gcc-config and setting your current gcc !!! profile will fix this Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-darwin/macos/10.3, gcc-3.3, libsystem-7.1-r0, 7.9.0 Power Macintosh) ================================================================= System uname: 7.9.0 Power Macintosh powerpc macos-20041118 Python: [2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11)] distcc 2.0.1-zeroconf powerpc-apple-darwin7.0 (protocol 1) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13 sys-devel/automake: [Not Present] sys-devel/binutils: [Not Present] sys-devel/libtool: [Not Present] virtual/os-headers: 7.1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc-macos" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-apple-darwin" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc emboss ncurses nls ogg ppc-macos readline userland_BSD kernel_Darwin elibc_Darwin" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
That is most likely the fault of the installer. I had a similar issue when installing portage for the first time on my Tiger. In this case, it is safe to do: FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge portage
That works for me on Pather 10.3.9 too, thanks
