tech-pkg: one package replacing files in another

Subject: one package replacing files in another
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@mit.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/20/1999 17:47:00

is there a "right way" to deal with a package which replaces files in a nother
package?  in particular, I want to create a package for a newer Getopt::Long
than the one which ships with perl.  make install complains:

    pkg_create: Overwriting /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/Getopt/Long.pm - pkg perl-5.00404 bogus/conflicting?
    pkg_create: Overwriting /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/newgetopt.pl - pkg perl-5.00404 bogus/conflicting?
    p5-Getopt-Long-2.20 requires installed package perl-5.00404

		Marc