pkgng and updated packages

[Andreas Nilsson]

I just wanted to add that when I today went about upgrading a computer I
had a very similar thing happen (with pkg-1.0.6 on 9.1-RELEASE): The new
version of the package reported conflicts with the old one.

Best regards
Andreas


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de>wrote:

>
> Am 28.01.2013 um 18:31 schrieb Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:28:02PM +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> >> I go from PERL 5.10 to PERL 5.16, for example and it complains that
> >> perl5.16 conflicts with perl5.10...
> >>
> >> This I needed, too:
> >>
> >> pkg set -o long/perl5.10:lang/perl5.16
> >> pkg remove perl
> >> pkg set -o devel/pkg-config:devel/pkgconf
> >> pkg remove -f pkg-config
> >>
> >
> > Hmm, you should not have needed to remove perl or pkg-config.  They
> > should have been upgraded as any other package.
> >
>
>
> I tried it without and it said it conflicted. It wanted to install
> perl5.16, without doing anything to 5.10.
> Maybe it is because I already had PERL_VERSION=5.16.2 in /etc/make.conf?
>
> I still have a couple of those to upgrade.
> I can send pkg_info etc. and the commands I ran from the next server on
> Wednesday night.
>
>
>
>
>
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