Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:31:22 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: marcus@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gettext / gettext-old exclusion Message-ID: <20040201133122.07f71726@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20040201121458.GA72452@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <1075625132.92856.5.camel@Twoflower.intra.net> <20040201121458.GA72452@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:14:58 +0100
Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:
> There are *NO* ports that depend on devel/gettext, so it is not really
> much of an issue.
> The conflict between devel/gettext and devel/gettext-old should kill
> exactly *zero* percent of the ports tree.
>
> The problems that people have had has usually been because they tried
> to update their installed ports (that were installed before gettext-old
> was created) and in the process got the dependencies screwed up
> somehow. This is problem with the updating process used, not with the
> ports tree itself.
Everyone with gettext problems (upgraded gettext to 0.13.1) should do
"portupgrade -fo devel/gettext-old gettext" which downgrades gettext to
gettext-old.
Bye,
Alexander.
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