ports/183453: "pkg install perl" tries to install multiple versions of perl

[Craig Rodrigues]

>Number:         183453
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       "pkg install perl" tries to install multiple versions of perl
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 29 21:10:01 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 perl

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

The following 4 packages will be installed:

        Installing perl: 5.12.5_1
        Upgrading perl: 5.14.4_1 -> 5.14.4_2
        Installing perl: 5.16.3_1
        Installing perl: 5.18.1_1

The installation will require 148 MB more space

51 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


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