Subject: Re: [gnome] Yelp depends on firefox1, rejects firefox2
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 01/11/2007 09:18:30
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:01:24PM -0800, walt wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:40 -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Gnome users currently can't upgrade to firefox2 because yelp won't
> > > accept it as a substitute for firefox...
> 
> > I have firefox2 already installed, and a build of yelp seems to start
> > and accepts firefox 2...
> 
> Oops, you are correct.  I was fooled by this message from pkgmanager:
> [pkgmanager] misc/yelp depends on non-installed package www/firefox (new
> dependency?)
> 
> I'll contact Peter Schuller and ask him why this happens.

Possibly because your firefox 2.0 package was still registered as firefox2
(if you've used pkgsrc-HEAD between 2006Q3 and Q4).

	Geert