Problems with portupgrade (maybe due to pkg-1.3) and gnutls3

[Kevin Oberman]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu>
wrote:

> On 07/24/2014 18:43, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Today I attempted to upgrade a bunch of ports with 'portmaster -a'. It
> > failed when it kept trying to install gnutls when I already had gnults3
> > installed. Turns out that the man pages conflict.
> >
> > But, why was it trying to install gnutls? I am baffled. The Makefiles
> have
> > a LIB_DEPEND on libgnutls.so which is satisfied by the version of
> libgnutls
> > installed by gnutls3.
> >
> > "portmaster gtk-vnc" will attempt to install gnutls, but 'cd
> > /usr/ports/net/gtk-vnc && make does not try to install it and happily
> links.
> >
> > This was not an issue with pkg-1.2 and I suspect that the solver is
> having
> > an issue with the dependency on gnutls reading:
> > libgnutls.so:${PORTSDIR}/security/gnutls
> >
> > If gnutls3 is installed, it meets the dependency, but I something is
> > insisting on installing ${PORTSDIR}/security/gnutls even it it is. I
> > suspect the same issue exists for any other ports where two ports install
> > different versions of the same shareable library.
> >
> > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> > E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
>
> See http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=362645
>

So somehow portmaster did not update gnutls3 to gnutls. So I still have
gnutls-3.1.25 installed instead of 3.2.15. I am mystified as to when
happened, but now I need to upgrade again.

Thanks!
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com