Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:59:40 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Mike Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients Message-ID: <4378D08C.2060103@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20051114174214.GH31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net> References: <pan.2005.11.14.17.02.43.659160@io.dk> <4378C7C0.8080308@dial.pipex.com> <20051114174214.GH31681@dementia.beyondnormal.net>
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Mike Hernandez wrote: >On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:22:08PM +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > >>Jeppe Larsen wrote: >> >> >> >>>After running cvsup and portupgrade, I'm having some problems with xterm >>>and some other programs. >>>Portupgrade failed because of the following: >>> >>>===> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>Don't delete any of those dependencies! If you do then you will >>probably have to re-install those packages to get the dependencies back. >> >> >> > >Great. I just had the same problem and I deleted the dependencies ;) >This is fun. If I had only waited 10 minutes... > >I hope I didn't break anything beyond repair..... > > I don't think so. Keep track of which ports you deleted the dependencies from, then when you have the whole xorg-clients/xterm mess sorted out, just force a re-install of those packages and the right dependencies will come back. Time consuming, but not rocket science ;-) I had to do something like that when interrupting gnome_upgrade early seems to bugger everything a treat, but I got everything back OK (I think!). --Alex
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