Re: conflicting dependencies in sysutils/flashrom

[Mike Pumford <mpumford%mudcovered.org.uk@localhost>]

On 2019-12-23 17:06, Mike Pumford wrote:

> Assuming the packages work that seems like the way to go. One other 
> useful thing would be to make the problem easier to diagnose. Some sort 
> of warning in the libusb1 package makefile that emits some sort of 
> warning if LIBUSB_TYPE is not set to compat so at least a user has a 
> breadcrumb trail to follow to get rid of the conflict?
Well I can confirm that flashrom is able to see the ROM on my apu just 
fine. (I'm on the latest BIOS as I did the update in linux before I 
realised that it was possible to do straight from BSD.

I can also confirm that apcupsd works fine with:
LIBUSB_TYPE=compat
on 8.1-STABLE/amd64

Mike