Subject: Re: failure to detect that perl5 is already installed.
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/05/2004 09:38:24
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Alan Barrett wrote:
: The pkgviews stuff is full of confusing error messages. Another
: one is "This package doesn't support PKG_INSTALLATION_TYPE=none"
: when what it means is more like "This package cannot be installed
: because the intersection between PKG_INSTALLATION_PREFS=pkgviews and
: PKG_INSTALLATION_TYPES=overwrite is empty".
Which sounds like you want
PKG_INSTALLATION_PREFS=pkgviews overwrite
for compatibility with both, preferring pkgviews.
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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>