On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:15:24AM -0400, dorqus wrote: > Benjamin Collins wrote... > > I recently upgraded to the latest snapshot and was in the process of > > upgrading all the packages I had installed, and when I tried to install > > packages that depend on expat, the install of expat failed with this: > > > > Can't install expat-2.0.0 because of conflicts (.libs-expat-1.95.6p1) > > > > I tried building from ports and got the same result. > > rm -r /var/db/pkg/.libs-expat-1.95.6p1 > > rebuild your new port. > Don't do that!!!!
Any package installed can be deleted... if you have conflicts with .libs-expat, it means you already updated expat, so you can usually just pkg_delete .libs-expat, as nothing will depend on it any longer.