Port won't build because of installed conflict

[Guido Falsi]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:37:29PM +0200, Angelo Turetta wrote:
>  On 20:59, Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >[mini] /usr/ports/www/firefox # make
> >
> try
>       make DISABLE_CONFLICTS=YES
> 
> or use ports-mgmt/portmaster
>      portmaster -o www/firefox firefox-3.5.13,1

This one alone will not work. In the UPDATING entry dated 20100207
it is clearly stated that removing firefox 3.5 before building FF
3.6 is required.

He could try disabling conflicts, but this could lead to a corrupt
FF 3.6 build.

I think that the conflict has been put there for good, so building
a package in a jail, virtual machine, other machine or an emulator
looks like the only safe solution.

Anyway if someone wants to try, maybe disabling conflcts is a
perfectly safe way. But one cannot know for sure until he tries.

-- 
Guido Falsi <mad at madpilot.net>