Re: [Fink-users] How to handle "Error: Pathname collision on case-insensitive filesystems"

[Alexander K. H. <ale...@gm...>]

On 2/24/2012 7:52 AM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I try to prepare the INFO and PATCH files for ImageMagick-6.7.5-6. The
> builds go fine until this:
>
> 	- Depends line is: imagemagick2-shlibs (= 6.7.5.6-1), lcms-shlibs (>=
> 1.11-1), libtiff-shlibs (>= 3.6.1-3), libjasper.1-shlibs (>=
> 1.900.1-1), libpng14-shlibs, libdjvulibre21-shlibs (>= 3.5.21-1003),
> libjpeg8-shlibs, fontconfig2-shlibs (>= 2.4.1-1), expat1-shlibs (>=
> 2.0.0-1), bzip2-shlibs (>= 1.0.2-2), libxml2-shlibs (>= 2.6.30-1),
> libiconv (>= 1.11-1), freetype219-shlibs (>= 2.3.5-1), libjbig-shlibs,
> ghostscript | ghostscript, openexr, libwmf-shlibs (>= 0.2.8.4-2), x11-
> shlibs, darwin (>= 9-1)
> 	
> 	Writing control file...
> 	Validating .deb dir /sw/src/fink.build/root-imagemagick-6.7.5.6-1...
> 	Error: Pathname collision on case-insensitive filesystems
> 		Offending file: /sw/share/doc/imagemagick/
> 		Offending file: /sw/share/doc/imagemagick/ChangeLog
> 		Offending file: /sw/share/doc/imagemagick/LICENSE
> 		Offending file: /sw/share/doc/imagemagick/NEWS.txt
> 	Removing runtime build-lock...
> 	Removing build-lock package...
>
> The assumption that the build is happening on a case-insensitive
> filesystem (HFS+) is wrong, it is happening on HFSX. And there are no
> other files in the archive with names similar to those mentioned which
> just use the same letters but in a diferent case. So really no danger
> of collisions.
>
> This happens on my PPC based system with Mac OS X 10.5.8. On my intel
> based system with Mac OS X 10.6.8 and simple HFS+ the message is not
> shown (and I think the INFO files are equal).
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>     Pete
>
> Hard Disk, n.:
> 	A device that allows users to delete vast quantities of data with
> simple mnemonic commands.
>
>
No.

The message isn't about the system where you're building the package 
currently.  What is telling you is that users will get different 
installed file content on HFSX than HFS+, because on the latter 
filesystem some files will be overwritten.

AKH