Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:40:33 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: scratch65535@att.net, FreeBSD Ports list <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Pkg doesn't care about conflict Message-ID: <57EA5AB1.4000200@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <gdtiubl0dm7tanmv6pfegt72dtlh6f5jfi@4ax.com> References: <gdtiubl0dm7tanmv6pfegt72dtlh6f5jfi@4ax.com>
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scratch65535@att.net wrote on 09/26/2016 21:42:
> I have the PHP 7.0 package installed under 10.2. Wanting to
> install the pecl-imagick port, I called pkg search, which
> returned a ref. I only caught the fact that it was going to
> install PHP 5.6 despite my having 7.0 installed when it started
> downloading 5.6.
>
> Given that PHP is one of the pillars of a FAMP setup, I'd think
> that pkg should be aware of conflicts like that and return a
> notice ("No version for PHP 7.0. Install PHP 5.6?") rather than
> blythely assume it'd be okay to install an older version of PHP
> (or Apache, or MariaDB/MySQL, mutatis mutandis) despite an
> already-installed later version.
Did you stop pkg in the middle or did you let it go? I think it will
show you conflict message and ask you if you would like to deinstall PHP
7.0 and install 5.6 instead.
Miroslav Lachman
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