On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:30:32 -0400,
Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> 
> On 4/22/20 1:19 PM, John Covici wrote:
> > 
> > That makes no sense to me -- portage itself says those files are owned
> > by 14.7.1965(14) so if its telling me that why does it not just
> > replace those files?
> > 
> 
> Aha, you're not doing anything wrong. The old 14.7.x version was slotted:
> 
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/diff/net-misc/teamviewer/teamviewer-14.7.1965.ebuild?id=2766d49e7c040d373685775a4515967cd0f1b33e
> 
> The new ones aren't (they're all SLOT=0). But the new ones install to
> the same place as the old 14.7.x versions. Since slotted packages aren't
> supposed to conflict, it's complaining that SLOT=0 and SLOT=14.7 (or
> whatever it was) are trying to install to the same place.
> 
> I guess the developer never noticed the problem because he was on a
> faster upgrade schedule. You can fix it by uninstalling the old version
> manually, and then installing the new one.
> 

OK, manually unmerging and re-emerging did the trick -- thanks all for
your help.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         cov...@ccs.covici.com

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