How to Reinstate gamin-0.1.5_2 Dependency

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 23:10 -0500, Bob Perry wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 and recently cvsup'd my system  and followed that with 
> portupgrade.  I subsequently ran pkgdb -Fu and was asked if gamin-0.1.5_2 was 
> a stale dependency for gnomevfs2-2.12.2_1 and inadvertently responded yes.  I 
> attempted to reinstall gamin-0.1.5_2 and received a message stating that it 
> was in conflict with fam-2.6.9_6 which I found was required by 
> firefox-1.5_5,1.  The message also indicated that I should delete fam-2.6.9_6 
> and then I could complete installation of gamin-0.1.5_2  so I did.  I ran 
> pkgdb -Fu again and replaced fam-2.6.9_6 with gamin-0.1.5_2 as a dependency 
> of firefox.  I expected to see a similar prompt requesting me to make 
> gamin-0.1.5_2 a dependency of gnomevfs2-2.12.2_1 but did not.
> 
> Both, gamin-0.1.5_2 and fam-2.6.9_6 seem to fulfill the same function of 
> monitoring file alterations (?). I don't fully understand the purpose but my 
> question is how do I return gamin-0.1.5_2 as a dependent of 
> gnomevfs2-2.12.2_1 and was I correct in making it a dependent of firefox?

You can only have one installed.  The following command will replace fam
with gamin:

portupgrade -o devel/gamin -f fam

Joe

> 
> Thnx in advance,
> Bob Perry
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