revived ports collection, errors galore

[F. Even]

On 11/8/03 2:01 PM, "freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org"
<freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 00:00:09 -0800
> From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
> Subject: Re: revived ports collection, errors galore
> To: "F. Even" <freebsdlists at elitists.org>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20031108080008.GA53815 at xor.obsecurity.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> 
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:36:04AM -0600, F. Even wrote:
>> I am running a FreeBSD 4.0 box.
> 
> The ports collection does not support 4.0.  See http://www.freebsd.org/ports/
> 
> Kris

I don't see anything at the ports site to indicate that the ports collection
shouldn't work on 4.0R.  Just vague pointers about how it "may not."

And that still doesn't help me figure out why the packages are not
installing?  I have not had problems installing packages up until I've tried
to update the ports collection.

{error}
[root at cerebus:/apps/pkgs] pkg_add openssh-portable-3.7.1p2.tgz
pkg_add: bad command '@conflicts openssh-3.*'

[root at cerebus:/apps/pkgs] pkg_add openssh-3.6.1_5.tgz
pkg_add: bad command '@conflicts openssh-portable-*'
{/error}