pkg_add conflicts

[Clifton Royston]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 12:00:55PM +0000, freebsd-hackers-request at freebsd.org wrote:
> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:34:48 -0500
> From: Robert Dormer <rdormer at gmail.com>
> Subject: pkg_add conflicts
> To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
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> Can someone tell me, when was the @conflicts command added to the 
> package system?  I keep trying to install things on my 4.9-RELEASE box
> and getting complaints from pkg_add about this command.

   It was quite a while ago, but the change came from CURRENT and I'm
not sure when/if it was backported to 4.x.

   Install the pkg_install-devel tools, and things will go fine.  I'm
switched over to using those on 4.8 + patches, and they work smoothly
on a number of machines.  The @conflicts directive is actually a good
thing, as it can prevent various maddening and hard-to-fix problems
coming up.

  If you have trouble installing pkg_install-devel from a package -
which you shouldn't - update ports and install pkg_install-devel from
ports before switching back to the packaging system.

  -- Clifton

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