Re: CONFLICTS in xentools?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 03:39:46PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> What I did was
> 
>   on a netbsd-6 i386 system with head pkgsrc, built nad installed
>   xentools41.
> 
>   installed pkgin (configured by default to get packages from the
>   official 2014Q3 builds)
> 
>   pkgin install xentools42
>   # I did this to see if the xentools42 package really was available,
>   # because it doesn't build for me.
> 
> and then found that xentools41 package had overwritten files.  It was
> easy enough to recover by removing both and re-adding, but something is
> amiss.

That's caused by pkgin calling pkg_install with '-f', always.

I don't think that's a good idea. It's also the reason that
dependency information is lost during upgrades.
 Thomas