portupgrade fails to upgrade the package because the older version is installed

Sergey Matveychuk sem at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 11 22:02:52 UTC 2008


Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 10/07/2008 11:18 Yuri said the following:
>> David Southwell wrote:
>>> Did you follow the instructions in UPDATING (see below)?
>>> They may have some bearing on the problem.
>>> ________________________
>>> 20080701:
>>>   AFFECTS: users of devel/subversion*
>>>   AUTHOR: Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
>>>
>>>   subversion now uses neon-0.28.x (www/neon28) port, and automatic
>>>   portupgrade will fail because neon26 will conflict with installed
>>>   neon26.
>>>   You should upgrade neon library tohgether with subversion with
>>>
>>>   # portupgrade -o www/neon28 neon subversion
>>>
>>>   command.
>>>
>>>   Also, if you use special subversion port with bindings, you
>>>   should upgrade your port to clean subversion port with
>>>
>>>   # portupgrade -o devel/subversion subversion-\*
>>>
>>>   and install needed bindings (p5-subversion, py-subversion and/or
>>>   ruby-subversion) after that.
>>>
>>>   If you use subversion with bindings, installed from devel/subversion
>>>   with custom options, don't forget to install separate bindings ports
>>>   after subversion upgrade.
>>> __________________________-
>>>
>>> David
>>>   
>>
>> No, command "portupgrade -o www/neon28 neon subversion" causes the same
>> error message itself.
> 
> Manually deinstall neon26 (you might want to create a backup with
> pkg_create -b) and then install neon28 and then proceed as usual with
> subversion.
> portupgrade -o seems to be broken.
> 

Really? Are you sure you use 2.4.3_2 version?
Anyway using -o should be only with one port. It may work not as you 
expected.

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Sem.


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