On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:21:02 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> Also, I am in the process of rescuing a system from the
> e2fs/util-linux/device-mapper snafu and find that now I have it booted
> re-emerging util-linux wont overwrite the files I manually installed to
> replace the missing ones - necessitating manually rm'ing some 50 or so
> files - is there a way to force emerge to ignore file collisions and
> just overwrite them in this circumstance?

FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge -1 util-linux

See man make.conf for more on FEATURES.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If a program is useless, it must be documented.

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