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Re: sci-mathematics/reduce on amd64

by Andrey G. Grozin :: Rate this Message:

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Miguel de Val-Borro wrote:

> I have upgraded from reduce-20110414 to reduce-20110414-r1 and got  a file
> collision during merging:
>
> * sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414
> *      /usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.doc
> *      /usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.fonts
> *
> * Package 'sci-mathematics/reduce-20110414-r1' NOT merged due to file
> * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole
> * content of the above message.
Yes, I saw this behaviour. I think this must be a bug in portage. The
directories /usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.doc and
/usr/lib64/reduce/reduce.fonts belong to the old version of reduce, which
is being removed during this install. Why are they triggering file
collision??

Andrey

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