Gamin and fam conflict...

[David J Brooks]

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:00, Elod Kironsky wrote:
> David J Brooks wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 18:23, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> >>> 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'.
> >
> > My mistake.. pkgdb -fu (not portsdb -fu) is what I was thinking of. I
> > used to get the same conflict,. I think between firefox and gramps, and I
> > would just install whichever one was asking to be installed right over
> > the other. Unfortunately, that method had a tendency to break other
> > packages. Changing fam dependents to gamin dependency solved the problem
> > for me. KDE (which wants fam) works just fine with gamin instead.
> >
> > David
>
> One last question. Is it actually pkgdb -fu or pkgdb -Fu?
>
> Elod

Use -F (to Fix) rather than -f (to force)

Dru Lavigne has a very helpful article on the ports system here: 
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1

David
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