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

Sergey Matveychuk sem at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 14 11:32:19 UTC 2008


Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 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.

This command works:
# portupgrade -o www/neon28 neon26

I'll fix UPDATING entry.

-- 
Dixi.
Sem.


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