On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:45:54PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 30 June 2009 19:54:10 Michael Higgins wrote: > > Detected file collision(s): > > > > /usr/bin/dp > > > > Searching all installed packages for file collisions... > > > > Press Ctrl-C to Stop > > > > mail-client/nmh-1.1-r1 > > /usr/bin/dp > > > > So, it seems both packages install the same file. WTF? Am I dead in the > > water now? > > Not necessarily. Usually one would persuade one of the ebuilds to not build > the offending file by removing some USE flag. That doesn't apply to those > packages (no relevant USE flags) so your options are: > > a. figure out which of the packages you can do without, and do so. (Do you > REALLY need a speech synthesizer?) > b. Examine each package's output of ./configure and see if there's a way to > disable something that will avoid collisions. Then build that package > manually. > c. Do b) but modify the ebuild and store it in your local overlay > d. Put on your cowboy hat (the black one), delete /usr/bin/dp and let rip > with
Just as a reference: from nmh, you get dp, the date parser: http://linux.die.net/man/8/dp from speech tools, you get dp, the dynamic programming tool: http://festvox.org/docs/speech_tools-1.2.0/x2656.htm The second seems crucial to the operation of speech tools, the former I am not sure. But for either it seems that they could more reasonably belong to /usr/libexec rather than /usr/bin... As to Alan's suggestions: (a) Presumeably the OP knows that he is trying to emerge speech tools. (b) and (c) are right out, at least for speech tools, since the functionality seems crucial. (d) o_0 Let this be a lesson to would-be programmers: it doesn't hurt to make longer, more descriptive names for programs. At the very least it increases the pattern space to decrease chance of collision. My suggestion: file a bug. Hope this either gets passed to upstream, or that someone patches the ebuild to make the packages install to more sane locations. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
