FreeBSD 10.0-RC4 pkg upgrade QT conflict

[Freddie Cash]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 8:41 AM, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:

> Hello and thank you for all suggestions :-)
>
> What I mean is that PKG seems to be missing some "good" mechanism for
> such conflict solution... and this situation WILL happen as users will
> want to rebuild custom options of packages from a different port tree.
>
> I have compiled by hand hpijs with network backend as my HP use
> JetDirect and this is disabled by default. Because I have compiled a
> port with WITH_PKGNG I assumed that PKG will be engaged and take care
> of proper dependency management or refuse to install as this would
> break binary dependencies tree. I was wrong.
>
> I also assumed that PKG will manage to handle port renames, dependency
> changes, etc. I was wrong.
>
> +1 for PKG to be able to handle such situations either by simply
> forcing to set port tree to version that would allow safe build (bad
> for new ports, simple solution), or calculate dependencies so they
> won't break current binary tree when newer ports are installed (good
> for new ports, complex work for pkg) :-)
>
> Long story short - there should be no conflict situation when I
> install updated port build by hand :-)
>

I believe a lot of that is planned for future releases, and that 1.3 goes a
long way toward that goal (released Real Soon Now).

However, I'm not directly involved in the development of pkg, so could be
way off in my predictions.  :)​​

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com