Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 11:25:11 +0200 From: Willy Picard <picard@kti.ae.poznan.pl> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conflict between avahi and howl/mDNSResponder Message-ID: <20060707092511.GA928@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> In-Reply-To: <966BB28D-B69A-410E-9A65-CC8652A7CD20@brooknet.com.au> References: <20060706111154.GB1282@copernic.kti.ae.poznan.pl> <966BB28D-B69A-410E-9A65-CC8652A7CD20@brooknet.com.au>
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:55:11PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote: > On 06/07/2006, at 9:11 PM, Willy Picard wrote: > > >Currently, avahi conflicts with howl/mDNSResponder. As a user of KDE, I have > >plenty of applications that depend on mDNSResponder. But at the same time, I > >am a user of OpenOffice.org, Firefox, eclipse and many others that depend on > >avahi (mainly because of gnome-vfs). The current conflict has the following > >consequence: I cannot update the applications that depend on avahi because > >avahi cannot be updated. Therefore, my question is the following: what > >should I do to have Firefox, OpenOffice.org and the like updated? Should I > >delete avahi and force a dependence of these applications with > >howl/mDNSResponder? Should I wait till Gnome and KDE find an agreement on > >this conflict :) ? > > This has been raised a number of times, check the archives. First, thank you very much for this very interesting contribution!!! This is a real good piece of help! For those that still have the avahi+howl+mDNSResponder conflict, here is a way to turnaround the problem: 1) Remove the /var/db/ports/avahi/options file if you have one 2) Run the following command: portupgrade -o net/avahi -f howl 3) When the option page appears, DO NOT enable the mDNSResponder compatibility 4) Run the following command: portupgrade -f avahi This is working for me and I hope it may help other persons to overcome the avahi+howl+mDNSResponder conflict. If the proposed solution is wrong or incorrect, please let others know about it. Willy -- Willy Picard e-mail: picard@kti.ae.poznan.pl Dept. of Information Technology www: http://www.kti.ae.poznan.pl/ The Poznan University of Economics tel: +48 61 848 05 49 Mansfelda 4, 60-854 Poznan, Poland fax: +48 61 848 38 40
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