Argh! Correction below. On Thursday 17 November 2005 00:02, Andy Fawcett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2005 23:26, Dejan Lesjak wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 of November 2005 04:26, James Long wrote: > > > After hours of head-banging over the past couple of days, > > > I have finally succeeded in installing EITHER > > > xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 OR xterm-206_1. Previously, > > > installing either port told me that it conflicted > > > with the other, in spite of having cvsupped my > > > ports tree twice to ensure I was getting the most > > > recent version of the ports, hopefully including a > > > fix to the chicken-and-egg problem noted in > > > /usr/ports/UPDATING > > > > x11/xorg-clients port does not conflict with any version of xterm. > > Where do you see that? > > For an interesting variation, I have a totally up to date ports tree, > with the latest versions of xterm and xorg-clients already installed: > > xterm-206_1 Terminal emulator for the X Window System > xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 X client programs and related files from X.Org > > then, portupgrade -fp xterm xorg-clients > ... > ===> Installing for xterm-206_1 > > ===> 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 > > Again, please note that xterm conflicts with the version of the > clients it is supposed to work with.
this should read "shows a conflict with a version of the port that is not installed". > This is repeatable on 2 systems > I have tried so far, 5.4-RELEASE/i386 and 6.0-STABLE/amd64. > > A. -- Andy Fawcett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In an open world without walls and fences, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." -- anon | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"