On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 05:32:54PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> On 21 June 2013 15:55, Matthew Seaman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 21/06/2013 14:34, Ben Laurie wrote:
> >> Installing texinfo-5.1.20130419_1...pkg-static: texinfo-5.1.20130419_1
> >> conflicts with emacs-24.3,3 (installs files into the same place).
> >> Problematic file: /usr/local/info/info.info.gz
> >>
> >> There doesn't seem to be any clean way to fix this ... hints?
> >
> > Add
> >
> > PERMISSIVE : yes
> >
> > to ${LOCALBASE}/etc/pkg.conf
> >
> > It's not really clean in that it just allows packages to stomp over each
> > other's files, but it lets you get the job done.
> >
> > The conflict you're seeing is a bug somewhere between those two
> > packages.  One or other of them should probably be patched to rename the
> > offending file.  Please raise a PR so that at least gets onto the radar
> > of the package maintainers.
> 
> Will do - where's the RT?
> 
> Also, is there an env flag that does the same thing?
> 
All configuration in pkg.conf can also be set by env flags. so PERMISSIVE=yes
will do the same.

regards,
Bapt

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