From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 22:53:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5A516A400 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:53:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206D213C43E for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2007 22:53:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h28so521459wxd for ; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.100.2 with SMTP id x2mr2279728agb.1181256812385; Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.4? ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 6sm1035505wrh.2007.06.07.15.53.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 18:53:49 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <20070607205905.GA45459@just.puresimplicity.net> References: <20070607205905.GA45459@just.puresimplicity.net> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20070607184501.9F5E.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.31 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re: portupgrade -o oddness... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:53:33 -0000 On Thursday June 07, 2007 at 04:59:05 (PM) Josh Tolbert wrote: > Having successfully completed my update from Xorg 6.9 to Xorg 7.2, I decided > to install a few things, one of which required devel/bison2 instead of bison. > Usually, portupgrade -o would handle this for me, but lately it seems like > portupgrade -o doesn't want to replace ports. Has anyone else noticed this or > is there a known workaround/fix? > > (15:38:21 ) $ pkg_info | grep bison > bison-1.75_2,1 A parser generator from FSF, (mostly) compatible with Yacc > (15:38:30 ) $ sudo portupgrade -o devel/bison2 bison > (15:38:34 ) $ sudo portupgrade -fo devel/bison2 bison > ---> Reinstalling 'bison-1.75_2,1' (devel/bison) > > The same problem occurred when I tried to replace ghostscript-gnu with > ghostscript-gpl as well. > > I'm using portupgrade-devel instead of portupgrade. Posting two identical questions except for the "Subject", eighteen minutes apart, to the same list does seem a bit tacky. Personally, I once tried to use the newer version of bison as opposed to the (I believe) bison-1.75, caused me grief. Since both versions cannot co-exist, at least not without quite a bit of user intervention, I found that I was getting broken dependencies, etc. being reported. I quickly reverted to the older version. I think, and as usually I am probably wrong, that only Open Office requires the newer version. It would be nice if there were a flag that would force the use of the newer version. It would be a welcome addition. Maybe something like: WITH-BISON2 that could be used on the command line or placed in the /etc/make.conf file for instance. -- Gerard