CONFLICTS usage question

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Fri Jun 18 19:28:16 GMT 2004


Thomas-Martin Seck wrote:

> * Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com> 
> [gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports]:
>
>> Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>>
>>> Is it all right if a wildcard pattern listed in CONFLICTS
>>> matches the port's package itself?
>>
>> No. You will break installation with FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes.
>
> What about "-DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER -DDISABLE_CONFLICTS"?

This disables the checks for already installed packages *and*
for conflicting packages, which are disjoint sets. You can
use this to repair files overwritten by a conflicting port
(of course damaging the other port in the process).

-Oliver



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