general question about packages and ports working together

[Kirk Strauser]

On Wednesday 10 January 2007 8:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote:

> > Fetching
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/All/k
> > delibs-3.5.1_1.tbz... Done.
> > pkg_add: package 'kdelibs-3.5.1_1' conflicts with kdelibs-nocups-3.5.5
> > pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s)
> > or -f to f
> > orce installation
> > pkg_add: pkg_add of dependency 'kdelibs-3.5.1_1' failed!
> > vagabund#
>
> That's the problem, you have a conflicting package (kdelibs built with
> WITHOUT_CUPS set) installed.  If you really want to use packages
> you'll need to revert that to the standard setting of including cups
> support.

Well, that and he's trying to install -RELEASE packages on a -RELEASE system 
with -STABLE ports.  How does one tell ports to install -STABLE packages - 
is that uname-dependent?
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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