pkg install subversion broken on 9.2-R...

[John-Mark Gurney]

Bryan Drewery wrote this message on Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 06:06 -0600:
> On 11/5/2013 10:54 PM, John-Mark Gurney 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.
> > 
> 
> Yes, this comes up a lot. This is part of the ongoing effort to make all
> PKGNAMEs unique. Once that is done, pkg will track by PKGNAME instead of
> origin and this problem goes away as it will find only
> 1 version of subversion when you type 'pkg install subversion'.
> 
> The plan is to get that in for pkg-1.3.

Ok, good to hear.  Just wanted to make sure it was being worked on...

Thanks.

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