texinfo

[Daniel Thiele]

On 03/24/13 09:59, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:11:17PM +0100, Daniel Thiele wrote:
>> On 03/15/13 12:21, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 12:03:08PM +0100, Daniel Thiele wrote:
>>>> On 03/14/13 23:04, Johan van Selst wrote:
>>>>> Hi Mitja,
>>>>>
>>>>> ajtiM wrote:
>>>>>> In ports is texinfo-5.1 update but whenever is texinfo new version
>>>>>> (update) I have a problem:
>>>>>> print/texinfo-5.1 confilcts with texi2html-5.0 (installs files into
>>>>>> the same place.
>>>>>> Problematic: /usr/local/share/texinfo/init/book.init
>>>>>
>>>>> This is curious: texinfo does not install this book.init file; and
>>>>> neither port seems to mention a potential conflict in the port Makefile.
>>>>>
>>>>> Could this be a left-over warning from an old version? Are other people
>>>>> seeing this problem as well?
>>>>
>>>> I also see this problem. I am experiencing this on a freshly installed
>>>> system, so no updating of any of the two ports is involved. texi2html
>>>> was installed first and seems to install a couple of init files in
>>>> TEXINFODIR. An installation of texinfo then fails with
>>>>
>>>> ===>   Registering installation for texinfo-5.1.20130313 as automatic
>>>> Installing texinfo-5.1.20130313...pkg: texinfo-5.1.20130313 conflicts
>>>> with texi2html-5.0_1,1 (installs files into the same place).
>>>> Problematic file: /usr/local/share/texinfo/init/book.init
>>>> *** [fake-pkg] Error code 70
>>>>
>>>> although the conflicting file is not listed in texinfo's pkg-plist.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok I'll try to reproduce, and fix pkgng is the bug comes from pkgng or come back
>>> with an explanation
>>>
>>> But do not expect something before next week.
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Bapt
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for looking into it. If you need any assistance or more
>> information, just drop me a line.
>>
>
> I finally got it. The bug is in the texinfo port:
> PORTDATA= *
> This globbing makes texinfo pick up all the files inside
> /usr/local/share/texinfo but if texi2html is installed before texinfo then it
> installs some files in that place, and those files are picked up in the texinfo
> plist. Thus pkgng is right yelling about a conflict in files.
>
> The fix would be to expand the files in PORTDATADIR directly into the texinfo
> plist.
>
> Until we get the stage feature into the ports tree
>
> regards,
> Bapt
>

Thank you for your effort to fix this issue. I can confirm, that now the 
issue with the conflicting files seems to be resolved.

Thank you again!

Regards,
Daniel