On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 02:20:34PM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed libxen from pkgsrc-wip and at the end, the following was
> printed:
> 
> ===> Registering installation for libxen-2.0.6
> pkg_create: Overwriting /usr/pkg/include/xc.h - pkg xentools12-040418 bogus/conflicting?
> pkg_create: Overwriting /usr/pkg/lib/libxc.so - pkg xentools12-040418 bogus/conflicting?
> 
> This warning was not very useful, because those files belonging to
> xentools12 were already overwritten when it was printed.
> 
> Shouldn't the check for conflicting files be performed before the actual
> installation, instead of after it? Currently, a package without explicit
> conflict can damage other installed packages, which seems wrong to me.

The bug here is that libxen should conflict with xentools{12,20}.

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