Title: ecompress broken in portage-2.2.00.13243
Author: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
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Posted: 2009-04-02
Revision: 1
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The ecompress utility as shipped in portage-2.2.00.13243 is broken.
Unfortunately this is only noticed after installing, and can make the
upgrade of Portage fail for people with stray uncompressed man-files.

If you have problems upgrading portage due to collisions with man-files,
it is safe to disable collision-protect just for this upgrade, e.g.:

  env FEATURES="-collision-protect" emerge -1ua portage

Ecompress has been fixed as of portage-2.2.00.13280.
