xterm conflicts with xorg-clients

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Monday 14 November 2005 09:02, 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?

I tested portmanager on this yesterday, it handled the conflict without a 
hitch, you may want to give it a try: sysutils/portmanager

-Mike