Gamin and fam conflict...

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:23:23PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger 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-\*

This may not leave a working system since they're not 100%
inter-compatible.

Kris
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