Portupgrading - many problems

[Iain Dooley]

hi all, i recently attempted to portupgrade the kde super package and had loads of problems. i first upgraded from FreeBSD 4.10 to FreeBSD 4.11, and then cvsup'd 'ports-all'. 

i then did portupgrade -R kde, but ran into several issues. a common error was:

"Program X has conflicts with the following installed packages:

package y
package z

they install files in the same place. please uninstall them and try again"

the first couple of times i make deinstalled them, but then i got an error saying that kdelibs-3.4.0_1 had conflicts with kdebase-3.2.3 and kdeartwork-3.2.3, which seems odd because they are all part of kde.

i ended up make deinstalling from /usr/ports/kde3/ and then make reinstalling.

once that was done successfully, i wanted to portupgrade firefox and thunderbird. they both had dependency failures. i subsequently pkg_add'd them, and it gave me warnings that certain package versions (such as pango) were required, but different versions were installed. these were the same errors that had caused the portupgrades to fail.

for most of them, though, the packages that were installed were _later_ versions than the ones required, and the programs operate fine. why can't i portupgrade? i tried portupgrading gaim too, and that failed. i ended up pkg_add'ing gaim and it gave me similar warnings about different package versions being installed, but in most cases the installed packages were more up to date.

can anyone shed some light on this situation?

cheers

iain