pkg install subversion broken on 9.2-R...

Kimmo Paasiala kpaasial at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 05:19:57 UTC 2013


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:54 AM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> Ok, I know this is partly my fault for not being specific enough, but
> after a pkg install python installed 2.7 and not 2.6 and the full set
> of 3.x versions, I was ok, lets just do the same for subversion...
>
> Of course I also didn't read that it was going to install 1.6.23_2,
> 1.7.13 AND 1.8.3 when you run pkg install subversion so I got a bunch
> of conflicts...
>
> Are we planning on fixing that so that it either installs on version,
> or asks which version you'd like to install?
>
> Thanks.
>

Pkg doesn't know that those conflicting packages are different
versions of the same software, it only knows that there is a conflict
between them. The solution to this requires a change at ports level.

-Kimmo


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