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Date:      Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:26:44 +0200
From:      Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To:        Thomas-Martin Seck <tmseck-lists@netcologne.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CONFLICTS usage question
Message-ID:  <6EC9DFB0-C15D-11D8-9250-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040618160618.19385.qmail@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org>

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Thomas-Martin Seck wrote:

> * Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> 
> [gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports]:
>
>> Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>>
>>> Is it all right if a wildcard pattern listed in CONFLICTS
>>> matches the port's package itself?
>>
>> No. You will break installation with FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes.
>
> What about "-DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER -DDISABLE_CONFLICTS"?

This disables the checks for already installed packages *and*
for conflicting packages, which are disjoint sets. You can
use this to repair files overwritten by a conflicting port
(of course damaging the other port in the process).

-Oliver



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