xterm conflicts with xorg-clients

[Eric Ekong]

Check /usr/ports/UPDATING.  There should be a fairly recent
entry discussing how to deal with this. Actually it is the first
listing in /usr/ports/UPDATING....

20051113:
  AFFECTS: users of x11/xterm, x11/xorg-clients, x11/XFree86-4-clients
  AUTHOR: x11 at FreeBSD.org

  Xterm no longer installs with '-static' prefix. Users should upgrade
  XFree86-clients to 4.5.0_1 or xorg-clients to 6.8.2_1 or newer before
  attempting upgrade of xterm to 206_1 or newer. Previous versions
remove
  xterm on deinstall so CONFLICTS have been set accordingly.


Eric
* Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52 at dial.pipex.com> [051114 12:22]:
> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:22:08 +0000
> From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52 at dial.pipex.com>
> To: Jeppe Larsen <jwl at io.dk>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients
> 
> Jeppe Larsen wrote:
> 
> >After running cvsup and portupgrade, I'm having some problems with xterm
> >and some other programs.
> >Portupgrade failed because of the following:
> >
> >===>  xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed package(s): 
> >     xorg-clients-6.8.2
> >
> >     They install files into the same place.
> >     Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
> >*** Error code 1
> >
> >And then skipped a bunch of packages. Then i manually deinstalled xterm
> >(that was wrong perhaps?) and now when running portupgrade again it is
> >complaining about some stale dependency to xterm. For example:
> >
> >Stale dependency: amarok-1.3.6 --> xterm-206 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to
> >fix, or specify -O to force.
> >
> >Then running pkgdb -F asks me alot of questions regarding this stale
> >dependency and I am not sure what to do with it.
> >
> >Then I read in UPDATING that one must upgrade xorg-clients before xterm,
> >but when i tried portupgrade xorg-clients I got:
> >
> >Stale dependency: xorg-clients-6.8.2 --> xterm-206
> >
> >Hmm, going in circles. Then i tried with the -F and xorg-clients started
> >to compile, but got an error code 1 with this:
> >
> >cc -o xdriinfo -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=pentium4 -ansi 
> >-pedantic -Wno-system-headers -Dasm=__asm  -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wundef   
> >-L/usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc/exports/lib   xdriinfo.o -lGL -lXext 
> >-lX11 -L/usr/X11R6/lib -pthread    -Wl,-rpath,/usr/X11R6/lib 
> >-Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/work/xc/exports/lib
> >xdriinfo.o(.text+0x59): In function `main':
> >: undefined reference to `glXGetProcAddress'
> >xdriinfo.o(.text+0x6a): In function `main':
> >: undefined reference to `glXGetProcAddress'
> >*** Error code 1
> >
> >What to do now?
> >
> > 
> >
> Don't delete any of those dependencies!  If you do then you will 
> probably have to re-install those packages to get the dependencies back.
> 
> I believe upgrading xorg-clients and then xterm should work, if only 
> that damn xorg-clients port would compile!  I found this link late last 
> night which might help, but haven't tried it myself yet.
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-i386/2005-January/002040.html
> 
> If you don't want to do all that then you'll have to get the xterm port 
> back to the state it was before cvsup.  Either get it from a backup or 
> try portdowngrade.  Deleting xterm port *was* a bad idea, sorry.  If you 
> had left it alone then you'd be left with working xorg-client and xterm 
> installed and could either chase the fix above at your leisure or wait 
> for someone to fix it officially.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> --Alex
> 
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