xterm conflicts with xorg-clients

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Mike Hernandez wrote:

>On  Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:22:08PM +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
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>>Jeppe Larsen wrote:
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>>>After running cvsup and portupgrade, I'm having some problems with xterm
>>>and some other programs.
>>>Portupgrade failed because of the following:
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>>>===>  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
>>>
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>>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.
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>Great. I just had the same problem and I deleted the dependencies ;)
>This is fun.  If I had only waited 10 minutes...
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>I hope I didn't break anything beyond repair.....
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I don't think so.  Keep track of which ports you deleted the 
dependencies from, then when you have the whole xorg-clients/xterm mess 
sorted out, just force a re-install of those packages and the right 
dependencies will come back.  Time consuming, but not rocket science ;-)

I had to do something like that when interrupting gnome_upgrade early 
seems to bugger everything a treat, but I got everything back OK (I think!).

--Alex