Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:12:26 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Openoffice.org-2-RC and bison conflicts Message-ID: <46CFA84B-B49D-417B-984A-964BD2CDA53B@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20070618225901.GA35682@0lsen.net> References: <20070618225901.GA35682@0lsen.net>
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On Jun 18, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Clint Olsen wrote: > I'm trying to install openoffice, and some sub-portion of the port is > installing bison2, and later it tries to install bison and then it > complains about conflicting ports. How is one supposed to deal with > sub-port conflicts like these? Why do we /ever/ allow ports to have > conflicts with other ports? Two ports which install files to the same place conflict-- you can't have two different versions of a file at the same path location. With some work, it is possible to install multiple versions of some ports (like Perl, Berkeley DB, GNU autoconf, etc) using a version # suffix, and symlink the version you prefer to the unqualified name: % ls -l /usr/local/bin/perl5 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 24 Mar 23 2006 /usr/local/bin/perl5@ -> / usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 ...but it doesn't magically happen. -- -Chuck
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