Two questions about upgrade problems with portmaster

[Peter Olsson]

I just did my first big upgrade with portmaster (version 2.1).
Most of the upgrades went well, but I have two problems.

1. Is it possible to get portmaster to accept a conflicting port
   instead of the dependency port?
   Example:

===>>> Starting check for runtime dependencies
===>>> Gathering dependency list for net/openldap23-client from ports
===>>> Starting dependency check
===>>> Dependency check complete for net/openldap23-client
        openh323-1.18.0_6 >> pwlib-1.10.3_4,1 >> net/openldap23-client

===>  Installing for openldap-client-2.3.41

===>  openldap-client-2.3.41 conflicts with installed package(s):
      openldap-sasl-client-2.3.41

      They install files into the same place.
      Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net/openldap23-client.


2. For some ports, portmaster seems to get stuck in a loop on
   "Waiting on fetch & checksum". Google pointed me to a
   portmaster loop back in 2006, but I found nothing recent.
   Here is one example, which I let run for more than ten minutes
   before hitting ctrl-c. The installed version of tk is tk-8.4.17,2.

===>>> Waiting on fetch & checksum for x11-toolkits/tk84 <<<===
===>  Found saved configuration for tk-8.4.14_4,2
=> MD5 Checksum OK for tk8.4.18-src.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for tk8.4.18-src.tar.gz.


===>>> Waiting on fetch & checksum for x11-toolkits/tk84 <<<===
===>  Found saved configuration for tk-8.4.14_4,2
=> MD5 Checksum OK for tk8.4.18-src.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for tk8.4.18-src.tar.gz.


===>>> Waiting on fetch & checksum for x11-toolkits/tk84 <<<===
===>  Found saved configuration for tk-8.4.14_4,2
=> MD5 Checksum OK for tk8.4.18-src.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for tk8.4.18-src.tar.gz.


===>>> Waiting on fetch & checksum for x11-toolkits/tk84 <<<===
===>  Found saved configuration for tk-8.4.14_4,2
=> MD5 Checksum OK for tk8.4.18-src.tar.gz.
=> SHA256 Checksum OK for tk8.4.18-src.tar.gz.


Thanks!

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Peter Olsson                    pol at leissner.se