Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:08:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Jos.Vissers@usquebaugh.telebyte.nl To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ports/7256: different ports installing binaries with same name/location Message-ID: <199807121008.MAA14579@usquebaugh.hoogehof.nl>
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>Number: 7256 >Category: ports >Synopsis: different ports installing binaries with same name/location >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 12 03:20:00 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jos Vissers >Organization: De Hooge Hof >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386 >Environment: >Description: The port net/mrtg (mrtg-2.5.1) and graphics/ImageMagick (ImageMagick-4.0.2) both install a file in /usr/local/bin with the name "convert". >How-To-Repeat: Just build and install both ports, I presume installing the packages has the same effect. >Fix: A set of tools like mrtg is not likely to be needed by common users and could therefore be installed in a seperate directory under /usr/local. The "convert" from mrtg is just a perl script to convert logfiles, the "convert" from ImageMagick is a binary to convert between various graphics formats. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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