xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

[Dejan Lesjak]

[freebsd-stable omitted]
On Wednesday 16 of November 2005 23:14, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> Argh! Correction below.
>
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 00:02, Andy Fawcett wrote:
> > For an interesting variation, I have a totally up to date ports tree,
> > with the latest versions of xterm and xorg-clients already installed:
> >
> > xterm-206_1         Terminal emulator for the X Window System
> > xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 X client programs and related files from X.Org
> >
> > then, portupgrade -fp xterm xorg-clients
> > ...
> > ===>  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).
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Again, please note that xterm conflicts with the version of the
> > clients it is supposed to work with.
>
> this should read "shows a conflict with a version of the port that is
> not installed".
>
> > This is repeatable on 2 systems
> > I have tried so far, 5.4-RELEASE/i386 and 6.0-STABLE/amd64.

It's indeed interesting. I can't seem to reproduce it. Is your pkgdb in good 
shape - does running 'pkgdb -F' complain about duplicate origins?


Dejan