Wednesday, October 05, 2022

Re: Package collisions

I would rename bin/widget in p5-Tk-demo, I don't think that will cause any
issue.

Disappointing that lrzip added a conflict with a long-standing Unix
utility. Undecided between renaming that to bin/lrzip and adding an @conflict.

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Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 5 October 2022 21:25:25 Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

> I ran pkg_check-problems(1) over the tree, and it pointed out
> collisions where different packages install files with the same
> name, and the packages aren't marked as @conflict'ing:
>
> elvish-0.16.3(shells/elvish),p5-Tk-demo-804.036(x11/p5-Tk,-demo)
> /usr/local/bin/widget
>
> lrzip-0.651(archivers/lrzip),lrzsz-0.12.20p2(comms/lrzsz)
> /usr/local/bin/lrz
> /usr/local/man/man1/lrz.1
>
> This should be fixed by renaming files on one side, or not installing
> them, or marking the packages as conflicting. Maybe somebody has
> an opinion for the cases above...
>
> --
> Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de

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