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

[Andriy Gapon]

on 12/07/2008 01:01 Sergey Matveychuk said the following:
> 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?

Yes. At least for me. When I reported the issue I got now follow-ups - 
nobody said that it works for them and nobody said that they see the 
same issue.

> Are you sure you use 2.4.3_2 version?

Yes.
$ ls -d /var/db/pkg/portupgrade-2.4.3_2,2
/var/db/pkg/portupgrade-2.4.3_2,2
$ portupgrade
portupgrade 2.4.3 (2008/02/10)

usage: portupgrade ...
...

> Anyway using -o should be only with one port. It may work not as you 
> expected.

I did exactly that.
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?486CE29D.6020400
Please note that the message linked contains a further link to an older 
report and discussion thread.


-- 
Andriy Gapon