xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

[Andy Fawcett]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 00:24, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> [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?

Yes, on both systems it was fine. I'd checked this, but omitted the 
detail.


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