Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 07:10:35 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More pkg issues .... Message-ID: <53F884BB.5080607@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <53F8822F.8030808@FreeBSD.org> References: <53F766ED.5010005@hiwaay.net> <53F84FA7.5010704@FreeBSD.org> <53F87F71.7050806@hiwaay.net> <53F8822F.8030808@FreeBSD.org>
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Hmmmmm .... So some of the pkgs contain the same file in more than 1 pkg
? If so, that sounds like a pkg problem to some extent, either w/
packaging by the maintainer, or the logic within pkg, which ought to
realize that it is the same file & let the install proceed ....
On 08/23/14 06:59, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 23/08/2014 12:48, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> i.e. packages downloaded but not installed & various references in ports
>> .... What gives ?
>>
> It needs to download the packages to get the full manifest, which is
> when it can tell that the packages have conflicting files.
>
> Matthew
>
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