Did an update of portage (update -u portage), it downloaded and compiled everything then it gave a load of errors about existing files not owned by this package. I'm not sure what it means or how to solve it... Steve Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: update -u portage Actual Results: Failed to update portage. >>> Completed installing portage-2.0.51.22-r2 into /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.51.22-r2/image/ * checking 141 files for package collisions existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/cvstree.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/getbinpkg.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/output.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_checksum.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_data.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_cpickle.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_flat.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_db_template.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_dep.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exception.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_exec.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_file.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_gpg.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_localization.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_locks.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_util.pyo is not owned by this package existing file /usr/lib/portage/pym/xpak.pyo is not owned by this package * spent 0.26237988472 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-2.0.51.22-r2 NOT merged Expected Results: Updated portage. Updated portage works fine on x86 LINUX.
FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge portage *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90329 ***
