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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Early CONFLICTS detection is POLA viloation?
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2010, Lev Serebryakov wrote:

> Hello, Freebsd-ports.
>
>  I  understand,  that  this  change (ports/137855, bsd.port.mk:1.632)  was  made 6 months ago, but I've
> noticed it only now (twice in one day!).
>
>  Am  I  only  person,  who  thinks,  that  this  change  is HUGE POLA
> violation?
>
>  PR  says about "big tarball is downloaded and CONFLICTS are detected
> after  that,"  but I've have two more realistic scenarios, when early
> conflict  detection  is  VERY annoying. Thry are real-life scenarios,
> occured today for me in a row.
>
> (1)  I  have  `subversion'  port  installed, and want to `makesum' in
> updated subversion-freebsd port directory (because I'm maintainer and
> need  to update port with new version, which have new tarball). OOPS.
> I cannot even download new tarball -- confilct is detected.
>
> (2) I want upgrade perl from 5.8.x to 5.10.x. Type command:
>
> #portupgrade -rfo lang/petl5.10 perl-5.8.9_3
>
>   Ooops, confilct is detected, upgraid failed. GRRRR!
>
>
>   Maybe, early conflict detection should only print WARNING, and only
> install  target  should  be blocked by it, as everybody used for MANY
> years?

It's been mentioned before:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/137855