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Date:      Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:23:12 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jim Hatfield <subscriber@insignia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange pkg_ behaviour
Message-ID:  <20031017212311.GA5764@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <2590pv0ggh1fd41dcbfc0gdb8nf7qsn6sj@4ax.com>
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 06:21:15PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:55:57 +0100, in local.freebsd.questions you
> wrote:
>=20
> >On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:30:19PM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote:
> >> Anyone know what causes this:
> >>=20
> >> >speyburn-isis(113) pkg_info -x php
> >> >pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts php4-cli-4*'
> >
> >You're trying to use new packages with your old FreeBSD system, which
> >is not supported.
>=20
> No I'm not, these packages were installed ages ago.

@conflicts was only added to the system recently, and after the
pkg_tools were updated to understand it.  It did not exist in packages
produced "ages ago".

> But that's beside the point. Is there anything I can do to
> fix it?

Update to RELENG_4, remove the incompatible packages, or edit the
+CONTENTS manually to remove the directive your older pkg_tools does
not understand.

Kris

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