-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 15:22:05, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Matthew Seaman <m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes: > >> You got bitten by an ill-considered change introduced after the UPDATING >> instructions were written. To work around it, you need to set >> DISABLE_CONFLICTS when rebuilding the port, eg like this: >> >> # portupgrade -m DISABLE_CONFLICTS=yes -o lang/perl5.10 -f perl-5.8\.* >> >> Please feel free to complain volubly about this: it's hand-holding for >> newbies which annoys and incoveniences the vastly larger number of >> non-newbies (ie. anyone who has been using the ports for more than a few >> weeks.) > > It has occurred to me that teaching portupgrade to handle this would be > a Simple Matter of Programming. Maybe even a strategy as simple as > adding the variable to the make command lines automatically any time > '-o' is specified. > > I wonder whether I could write that change without actually learning ruby... >
Probably it's easy enough to do that, but only at the cost of completely turning off the otherwise valuable conflicts checking mechanism. You'ld actually want to be informed of any conflicts /except/ the ones you always get in this sort of operation between the port being replaced and the port replacing it. The fundamental problem is that conflicts checking has been moved to way too early in the sequence -- it even blocks you from downloading the tarballs for any port that conflicts with what you have installed. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuRJG0ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxqrwCgiP3cq3jDDcJzRYIycSGD3FpL SIsAn1cWMmeFinU6C9UTWdlJWb0LcTxC =+Ede -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"