Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:58:16 +0200 From: Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk> To: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, James Long <james_mapson@umpquanet.com> Subject: Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch) Message-ID: <200511172158.17881.andy@athame.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200511172044.26606.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> References: <20051116032616.GA92903@ns.museum.rain.com> <200511170454.46214.andy@athame.co.uk> <200511172044.26606.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
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On Thursday 17 November 2005 21:44, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> 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).
Correct, just the one directory representing the correct version
installed.
> Does the same happen if you do:
> % cd /usr/ports/x11/xterm
> % pkg_delete -f xterm-\*
> % make install
That works okay. No problem seen there.
A.
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