xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Wednesday 23 of November 2005 01:11, Joel Hatton wrote:
> > Joel Hatton wrote:
> > > What was the rationale behind changing this behaviour for 206_1?
> >
> > That xterm should install as xterm and not xterm-static.
>
> This is certainly sensible, however it appears that the onus has now been
> put on the maintainer of xorg-clients to change its installation process
> to accommodate xterm.

It has been accommodated.

> This hasn't happened yet (after cvsup this morning), 
> which means that xterm remains incompatible with the current xorg-clients
> version and thus will fail during every portupgrade -a until then, unless
> I make xterm a held package.
>
> According to UPDATING, upgrading "xorg-clients to 6.8.2_1 or newer" is ok,
> but this is not the case:
>
> # pkg_info -I xorg-clients\*
> xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 X client programs and related files from X.Org
>
> # portupgrade -p xterm
>
> ... (building)
>
> --->  Installing the new version via the port
> ===>  Installing for xterm-206_1
>
> ===>  xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
>       xorg-clients-6.8.2
>
>       They install files into the same place.
>       Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).

Interesting. This is how it goes here:

# pkg_info -I xorg-clients\*
xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 X client programs and related files from X.Org

# portupgrade -fp xterm
...
===>  Building for xterm-206_1
... (build) ...
===>  Installing for xterm-206_1
... (install) ...
===>   Registering installation for xterm-206_1
...


Can you try without portupgrade (cd /usr/ports/x11/xterm && make install).

> Couldn't this transition have been better managed?

Possibly. Do you have a suggestion so it can be used in similar future 
situations?


Dejan