On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'm trying to install a perl module with g-cpan and it wants to >>> install perl-gcpan/Date-Manip-5.54 as a dependency of the perl module >>> I want to install. I already have dev-perl/DateManip-5.54 installed >>> so I'm getting a file collision error. Does anyone know how to fix >>> this? >>> >>> * Detected file collision(s): >>> * >>> * /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pm >>> * /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Date/Manip.pod >> >> Are the files from both packages identical? If so, you can ignore the >> collision (but if you unmerge one or the other, maybe they will >> disappear and break the remaining package). If they are not identical, >> then I guess you cannot have these two packages installed at the same >> time without some manipulation (no pun intended). > > Shouldn't g-cpan know that Date-Manip is already installed? It seems > to be aware of dev-perl stuff. I can't ignore the collision error > unless I inject the package into /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > since it stops the emerge.
Sure, you can just disable collision protection and then it'll overwrite :)
