From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 21 20:24:01 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C5B437E; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:24:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benlaurie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-x22c.google.com (mail-qa0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::22c]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E457C12E5; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f44.google.com with SMTP id j8so922061qah.10 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:24:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=hsWcQgfIUGxbb2P7ncsebOn8EGuA/zbJ5TStkmGZzIg=; b=Z43JwwqbQCq6mslne6k1Dut9rf8UxyxzPkr+huG/4IcMryzDTaDzJSyO+Bqv6tINqR zzr2Uc6q3b4ubVyAn1JVL8iaOroc5QxmSVdQ3rdxOi7SwGrgCCr4K/26HO/vvoiW3cOO 0kyfqnlXoyCUkqbiJQWHbTzXDt8AJMXNZXvWCg6nNO0JbdytC+CKKa7XPdSE+erOTzRP CLLxCrKdYAEk+CycKO49d8+NtfED6MTIUVlMC5lc/fNveLuw4oA+KOWroQdiPoSMgSYA 13iP2gwtgQm9LGFrKl361gtAi1ZORHVesRTA98dK4MI6HLnN7ub8F228S8uN6cUVEhFb ohSw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.114.7 with SMTP id c7mr3943932qaq.89.1371846240507; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: benlaurie@gmail.com Received: by 10.49.19.73 with HTTP; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:24:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <51C4ABA8.6020704@FreeBSD.org> References: <51C46978.2010102@freebsd.org> <51C4ABA8.6020704@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:24:00 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: phmRMU6l0NVDizebbyyqm0IhvoI Message-ID: Subject: Re: texinfo vs. emacs... From: Ben Laurie To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 20:24:01 -0000 On 21 June 2013 20:38, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/06/2013 17:32, Ben Laurie wrote: >> On 21 June 2013 15:55, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> On 21/06/2013 14:34, Ben Laurie wrote: >>>> Installing texinfo-5.1.20130419_1...pkg-static: texinfo-5.1.20130419_1 >>>> conflicts with emacs-24.3,3 (installs files into the same place). >>>> Problematic file: /usr/local/info/info.info.gz >>>> >>>> There doesn't seem to be any clean way to fix this ... hints? >>> >>> Add >>> >>> PERMISSIVE : yes >>> >>> to ${LOCALBASE}/etc/pkg.conf >>> >>> It's not really clean in that it just allows packages to stomp over each >>> other's files, but it lets you get the job done. >>> >>> The conflict you're seeing is a bug somewhere between those two >>> packages. One or other of them should probably be patched to rename the >>> offending file. Please raise a PR so that at least gets onto the radar >>> of the package maintainers. >> >> Will do - where's the RT? > > It's Gnats I'm afraid: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html or send-pr(1). > >> Also, is there an env flag that does the same thing? > > As bapt said, PERMISSIVE=yes in the environment will have the required > effect. > > However, did you know that info(1) is in the base system? If all you > want to do it read info pages, there's no actual need to install texinfo > from ports. texinfo is getting installed as a dependency for octave.... > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > >