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Date:      Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:19:56 +0200
From:      Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg install subversion broken on 9.2-R...
Message-ID:  <CA%2B7WWSfjU=2xe9xgV5Pc7yZ_P7xjNcjixdgA1pHkfp6o5ovcbQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131106045422.GA2279@funkthat.com>
References:  <20131106045422.GA2279@funkthat.com>

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On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:54 AM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:
> Ok, I know this is partly my fault for not being specific enough, but
> after a pkg install python installed 2.7 and not 2.6 and the full set
> of 3.x versions, I was ok, lets just do the same for subversion...
>
> Of course I also didn't read that it was going to install 1.6.23_2,
> 1.7.13 AND 1.8.3 when you run pkg install subversion so I got a bunch
> of conflicts...
>
> Are we planning on fixing that so that it either installs on version,
> or asks which version you'd like to install?
>
> Thanks.
>

Pkg doesn't know that those conflicting packages are different
versions of the same software, it only knows that there is a conflict
between them. The solution to this requires a change at ports level.

-Kimmo



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