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Date:      Sat, 3 Dec 2005 23:14:33 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dealing with duplicate packages
Message-ID:  <20051204041433.GA1269@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <fb6605670512032007t5fdb55d9p7e14c021b4983585@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fb6605670512032007t5fdb55d9p7e14c021b4983585@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:07:38PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> People,
>=20
> I was just looking at my package database, and it seems that I have
> some dups installed thanks to some ports I've installed.
>=20
> [msoulier@kanga ~]$ alias pkg_dups
> alias pkg_dups=3D'pkg_info | sort | sed -e '\''s/-[0-9].*$//'\'' | uniq
> -c | grep -v '\''^[[:space:]]*1'\'''
> [msoulier@kanga ~]$ pkg_dups
>    3 autoconf
>    3 automake
>    2 libtool

Probably not duplicates, but different ports.

>    2 p5-Compress-Zlib
>    2 p5-ExtUtils-CBuilder
>    2 p5-IO-String

These probably are.

> I'd prefer to have one version of each of these installed. What's the
> normal way to resolve this, and the subsequent dependency problems?

Use a tool like portupgrade to upgrade your ports.

Kris

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