You can force the pkg_delete with -f (or maybe -F). You'll want to
delete all the postgresql (ie: postgresql-*) packages as well, and
then re-install them after you install 8.2.
On Nov 12, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Steve Manes wrote:
> I've got 8.1 running fine. I want to upgrade to 8.2. Problem is,
> FreeBSD's portupgrade utility only wants to upgrade my existing 8.1
> installation.
>
> So I grabbed the latest ports collection, which includes
> postgresql82-client and postgresql82-server. Running 'make
> install' on postgresql82-client gives me:
>
> ===> Installing for postgresql-client-8.2.5_1
>
> ===> postgresql-client-8.2.5_1 conflicts with installed package(s):
> postgresql-client-8.1.10
>
> They install files into the same place.
> Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).
> *** Error code 1
>
> So I ran: pkg_delete postgresql-client-8.1.10
>
> ... and got this error:
>
> pkg_delete: package 'postgresql-client-8.1.10' is required by these
> other packages
> and may not be deinstalled:
> dovecot-1.0.0
> kde-3.5.6_1
> koffice-1.6.2_3,2
> php5-extensions-1.1
> php5-pgsql-5.2.3
> postgresql-libpqxx-2.6.9
> postgresql-plperl-8.1.9
> postgresql-server-8.1.10_2
>
> I seem to have hit a brick wall. I tried installing postgresql82-
> server first but it wouldn't do that without the 8.2 client library
> installed.
>
> What's the portupgrade process in FreeBSD??
>
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