Kdebase 3.2.1 fails to upgrade

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Tuesday 16 March 2004 17:59, leafy wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 05:54:46PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/libXau.so: No such file or directory
> >
> > I'm not sure, but my guess is that at one point you had x11/libXau
> > installed and your old kde installation picked libXau.so up and linked
> > against it - but XFree86-4-libraries only installs libXau.a. Please try:
> >
> > pkg_delete -f kdebase\* libX\* XFree86-libraries\*
> >
> > Then portinstall kdebase. If this succeeds, you should be able to
> > continue with the portupgrade.
>
> The problem is libXau has an incomplete pkg-plist which forgot the
> libXau.la <- this got picked up and points to libXau.so (which won't
> exist if you simply remove libXau port)

I see. I really think all those libX* ports need some overhauling - and, most 
importantly, CONFLICTS with XFree86-libraries, kde@ has been getting reports 
about hosed libX-something libraries ever since those ports arrived. Any 
takers?

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