On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:34:47PM +0200, Bihlmaier Andreas wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 11:20:44AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2006/06/17 11:38, Bihlmaier Andreas wrote: > > > Could you elaborate on this, since that was my first thought how to do > > > it, but it didn't work (and doesn't), do I need a special -F flag? > > > > > > setenv PKG_PATH $OBSD_FTP/snapshots/packages/i386/ > > > setenv PKG_CACHE $HOME > > > > > > Results in: > > > /usr/sbin/pkg_add should be run as root > > > parsing kdebase-3.5.3 > > > Can't install kdebase-3.5.3 because of conflicts (kdebase-3.5.1p4) > > > /usr/sbin/pkg_add: kdebase-3.5.3:Fatal error > > > > This doesn't work because: > > > > 1. you already have an older version installed. > > Add -r (replace) to the command line. > > > > 2. you mix -current packages and -stable OS. > > I know this quite well (using OpenBSD since quite a while), but you have > to read the previous mail I was responding to. > Marc Espie said that I could use "pkg_add -n ..." (-n => Do not install) > to fetch a package together with it's dependencies, but that doesn't > work because pkg_add does checks ...
Just tell it to install stuff elsewhere instead, or tell it to use -r anyways. It will still work. Why shouldn't it ? exercise some logic...
