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Date:      Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:44:25 +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:  <200511172044.26606.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
In-Reply-To: <200511170454.46214.andy@athame.co.uk>
References:  <20051116032616.GA92903@ns.museum.rain.com> <200511162324.23848.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <200511170454.46214.andy@athame.co.uk>

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On Thursday 17 of November 2005 03:54, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 00:24, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > [freebsd-stable omitted]
> >
> > 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?
>
> Yes, on both systems it was fine. I'd checked this, but omitted the
> detail.

And the contents of /var/db/pkg was fine I guess (ie. no more than one 
directory beginning with xorg-clients).
Does the same happen if you do:
% cd /usr/ports/x11/xterm
% pkg_delete -f xterm-\*
% make install


Dejan



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