ports/183725: "pkg install subversion" tries to install multiple versions of subversion

[Craig Rodrigues]

>Number:         183725
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       "pkg install subversion" tries to install multiple versions of subversion
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 06 19:00:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Craig Rodrigues
>Release:        9.2
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>Environment:
>Description:
If I execute this command:

pkg install subversion

then 'pkg' will try to install multiple versions of subversion.

See posting by claudiu vasadi: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-November/075731.html


>From some discussions on the mailing lists with Baptiste,
Baptiste would like to see that

(1) PKGNAME must be unique in the ports tree
(2) LATEST_LINK can be used to work around the problem, but
the ideal solution would be to fix PKGNAME

This is similar to:
PR 183452
PR 183453
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>Fix:


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