Gamin and fam conflict...

Wed Apr 12 23:23:18 UTC 2006

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:23:23 -0500, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:12:33 -0500, David J Brooks <daeg at houston.rr.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 17:43, Elod Kironsky wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I'm trying to install Openoffice 2.0.2 from a binary package. I got,
>>> that some packages are missing, so I started to install them. I built
>>> the latest gamin port, but when I try to install it, I get a warning,
>>> that fam is already installed and gamin installs into the same
>>> directory. Now can I pkg_delete fam and install gamin safely? I see,
>>> that fam is needed by a bunch of KDE ports. Can I do that or at least
>>> install gamin over fam?
>>
>> Deinstall fam and install gamin (or vice-versa, they are functionally  
>> the
>> same.) Then run portsdb -Fu to update dependencies from fam to gamin.  
>> Read
>> man 1 portsdb for more details.
>
> The portsdb won't help, which it's for INDEX stuff. You need to add  
> WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin in make.conf, then do the -o in portupgrade to  
> replace.
>
> 	portupgrade -f -o devel/gamin fam-\*
>
> If you arleady uninstall fam, then no need to use portupgrade and run  
> kgdb -f'.

'pkgdb -f'

> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>> David


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