From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Aug 12 18:12:13 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9A21078D0C for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2018 18:12:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norman@astro.gla.ac.uk) Received: from smtp84.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (smtp84.iad3b.emailsrvr.com [146.20.161.84]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E53CC74458 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2018 18:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norman@astro.gla.ac.uk) Received: from smtp11.relay.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp11.relay.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id B5A4040079; Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:12:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Auth-ID: astro@nxg.name Received: by smtp11.relay.iad3b.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: astro-AT-nxg.name) with ESMTPSA id 5E2C340071; Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:12:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender-Id: astro@nxg.name Received: from [169.254.20.184] (164.70.2.81.in-addr.arpa [81.2.70.164]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 0.0.0.0:25 (trex/5.7.12); Sun, 12 Aug 2018 14:12:06 -0400 From: "Norman Gray" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolving package conflicts (pkg set -o?) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 19:12:04 +0100 X-Mailer: MailMate (1.11.3r5509) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <03EF2AAC-B928-4B82-BB14-3AF4C009E5E5@astro.gla.ac.uk> References: <03EF2AAC-B928-4B82-BB14-3AF4C009E5E5@astro.gla.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 18:12:13 -0000 Or (the same question more compactly expressed) is there a general strategy for dealing with package conflicts, where two packages install files at the same path? On 10 Aug 2018, at 18:10, Norman Gray wrote: > Greetings. > > When installing the 'ceph' package, I get an error: > > pkg: openldap-client-2.4.46 conflicts with openldap-sasl-client-2.4.46 > (installs files into the same place). Problematic file: > /usr/local/bin/ldapadd > > I'm not sure how best to resolve this. Can anyone offer advice? > > This happens because I've installed the openldap-sasl-client package > in preference to openldap-client (or rather, the nss-pam-ldapd-sasl > package installs the former rather than the latter). I take it that > the two packages would be broadly equivalent in function from the > point of view of dependencies. However I'm not sure what the real > difference is between these two alternatives. > > One way of resolving this appears to be to use pkg set -o > net/openldap24-client:net/openldap24-sasl-client, as mentioned in a > UPDATING entry of 20121212 (I haven't tried this yet). > > However the pkg-set(8) manpage suggests this is deprecated, I can't > find any way to reverse this if I mess up, and the discussion at > suggests > this is a rather desperate measure, in the sense that (I quote) > 'there's no going back', and there seems to be no way to discover > later what fixes have been applied. That is, this sounds highly > breakable, and pretty clearly not TRTTD. > > Section 4 of the handbook doesn't seem to cover this situation. > > I can't think of where else to look. > > I (vaguely) imagine I could get round this by installing ceph's > dependencies via pkg by hand, and then building net/ceph using > portmaster. Though I see that that has an 'R-dep' on openldap-client, > so that might just be a longer route to the same problem. > > I don't really want to build ceph from source. I doubt that'd be hard > to do, but it'd be annoying to maintain (and hence errorprone). > > I can't be the first to have this type of problem, so I expect I'm > missing something pretty obvious. > > Best wishes, > > Norman > > > -- > Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk > SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK -- Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK