ports/183452: "pkg install postfix" tries to install multiple versions of postfix

[Craig Rodrigues]

>Number:         183452
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       "pkg install postfix" tries to install multiple versions of postfix
>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:   Tue Oct 29 21:00:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Craig Rodrigues
>Release:        9.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
If I execute this command:

pkg install postfix

then 'pkg' will try to install multiple versions of postfix:

The following 4 packages will be installed:

        Installing postfix: 2.10.1,1
        Installing postfix: 2.7.14,1
        Installing postfix: 2.8.15,1
        Installing postfix: 2.9.7,1

The installation will require 53 MB more space

8 MB to be downloaded

Proceed with installing packages [y/N]:


>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


One other workaround is to do:

pkg install mail/postfix


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