From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 5 16:13:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B374E37B400 for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 16:13:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g45NAYG16384; Sun, 5 May 2002 19:10:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 19:10:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Newton, Harry" , "'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: pkg-plist entries duplicated between ports : advice sort In-Reply-To: <20020505160330.A30538@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20020505190744.B15598-100000@blues.jpj.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 02:25:21PM +0100, Newton, Harry wrote: > > > What do I do if I want to create a port with a name that already > > appears in the ports tree ? I can give the port a different name, but > > what should I do if both of them install binaries and man pages with > > the same names ? > > Either use a conditional which marks the port BROKEN if the port that > it conflicts with is installed, or change your port so that it doesn't > install files with the same name. Patches have been submitted which, if they are ever committed, will add support for conflicts to the package tools and to bsd.port.mk: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=13649 http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/13650 -- Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message