More pkg issues ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at hiwaay.net
Sat Aug 23 12:04:23 UTC 2014



Hmmmmm .... So some of the pkgs contain the same file in more than 1 pkg 
? If so, that sounds like a pkg problem to some extent, either w/ 
packaging by the maintainer, or the logic within pkg, which ought to 
realize that it is the same file & let the install proceed ....


On 08/23/14 06:59, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 23/08/2014 12:48, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> i.e. packages downloaded but not installed & various references in ports
>> .... What gives ?
>>
> It needs to download the packages to get the full manifest, which is
> when it can tell that the packages have conflicting files.
>
> 	Matthew
>

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