how to resolve openldap version conflict

[Lowell Gilbert]

Peter Ryan <pryan at singnet.com.sg> writes:

> I am trying to install Samba3 from the ports
> collection onto freeBSD 4.10.
> 
> The Make terminated because there was an
> earlier version of openldap already 
> installed, and the new one wanted to store
> files in the same directory.
> 
> When i tried to pkg_delete the old version,
> it refused, saying that several KDE related 
> items were using it.
> 
> I am confused about what to do about this.
> 
> (I dont have the version numbers.. after this
> i decided to try and install samba 2, and a
> blue options screen came up that seems to 
> have wiped out the error messages that 
> appeared at the end of the samba 3 make)
> 
> Thanks in advance for any pointers.

Sounds like a job for the sysutils/portupgrade port.