portupgrade fails to upgrade the package because the older version is installed

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Fri Jul 11 15:19:36 UTC 2008


on 10/07/2008 11:18 Yuri said the following:
> David Southwell wrote:
>> Did you follow the instructions in UPDATING (see below)?
>> They may have some bearing on the problem.
>> ________________________
>> 20080701:
>>   AFFECTS: users of devel/subversion*
>>   AUTHOR: Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
>>
>>   subversion now uses neon-0.28.x (www/neon28) port, and automatic
>>   portupgrade will fail because neon26 will conflict with installed
>>   neon26.
>>   You should upgrade neon library tohgether with subversion with
>>
>>   # portupgrade -o www/neon28 neon subversion
>>
>>   command.
>>
>>   Also, if you use special subversion port with bindings, you
>>   should upgrade your port to clean subversion port with
>>
>>   # portupgrade -o devel/subversion subversion-\*
>>
>>   and install needed bindings (p5-subversion, py-subversion and/or
>>   ruby-subversion) after that.
>>
>>   If you use subversion with bindings, installed from devel/subversion
>>   with custom options, don't forget to install separate bindings ports
>>   after subversion upgrade.
>> __________________________-
>>
>> David
>>   
> 
> 
> No, command "portupgrade -o www/neon28 neon subversion" causes the same
> error message itself.

Manually deinstall neon26 (you might want to create a backup with
pkg_create -b) and then install neon28 and then proceed as usual with
subversion.
portupgrade -o seems to be broken.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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