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Date:      Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:24:22 +0100
From:      Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
To:        Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, James Long <james_mapson@umpquanet.com>
Subject:   Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)
Message-ID:  <200511162324.23848.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
In-Reply-To: <200511170014.58776.andy@athame.co.uk>
References:  <20051116032616.GA92903@ns.museum.rain.com> <200511170002.14208.andy@athame.co.uk> <200511170014.58776.andy@athame.co.uk>

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On Wednesday 16 of November 2005 23:14, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> Argh! Correction below.
>
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 00:02, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > For an interesting variation, I have a totally up to date ports tree,
> > with the latest versions of xterm and xorg-clients already installed:
> >
> > xterm-206_1         Terminal emulator for the X Window System
> > xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 X client programs and related files from X.Org
> >
> > then, portupgrade -fp xterm xorg-clients
> > ...
> > ===>  Installing for xterm-206_1
> >
> > ===>  xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
> >       xorg-clients-6.8.2
> >
> >       They install files into the same place.
> >       Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Again, please note that xterm conflicts with the version of the
> > clients it is supposed to work with.
>
> this should read "shows a conflict with a version of the port that is
> not installed".
>
> > This is repeatable on 2 systems
> > I have tried so far, 5.4-RELEASE/i386 and 6.0-STABLE/amd64.

It's indeed interesting. I can't seem to reproduce it. Is your pkgdb in good 
shape - does running 'pkgdb -F' complain about duplicate origins?


Dejan



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