Re: pkgin says gnuit supersedes git

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost>]

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 09:21:13AM +0200, Songbo Wang wrote:
> I'm using pkgsrc on macOS (uname -r: 23.6.0) with binary packages from
> pkgsrc.smartos.org. When I try to upgrade packages, I keep encountering
> the following odd behavior:
> 
> $ sudo pkgin upgrade
> calculating dependencies...done.
> 
> 1 package to install:
>   gnuit-4.9.5nb1
> 
> 1 package to remove (superseded):
>   git-2.49.0
> 
> 1 to remove, 0 to refresh, 0 to upgrade, 1 to install
> 0B to download, 1501K of additional disk space will be used
> 
> proceed ? [Y/n]
> 
> It seems that gnuit was formerly named "git", which might be causing this.
> However, I already have a recent version of git installed, so this doesn't
> seem correct. Any ideas what's going on?

The reason is that gnuit was called 'git' but we renamed it to gnuit
to make space for the much better known git SCM.

When doing that, we added support for switching from git to gnuit.

But this was in 2013, and now the entries make more problems (like
yours) than they solve, so I've removed them.
 Thomas