[csw-maintainers] Upgrade problems??

[Philip Brown]

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Roger Håkansson <hson at opencsw.org> wrote:
> On 2010-04-04 08:27, Jeffery Small wrote:
>>
>> When I do a pkgchk -l CSWxpdf, it
>> reports that files like pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdftoppm, pdftops,
>> and pdftotext are referenced by packages CSWpoppler and CSWxpdf.  I'm
>> gonna'
>> take a guess here and say that there may be a conflict between these two
>> packages and that may somehow be responsible for CSWxpdf getting trashed -
>> possibly when CSWpoppler is upgraded?
>
> Yes there is a conflict between CSWpoppler and CSWxpdf due to the fact that
> poppler is a fork of the xpdf source and they have kept the binary names.
> CSWpoppler have CSWxpdf marked as incompatible so you should not be able to
> install it by mistake, however CSWxpdf does not have CSWpoppler as
> incompatible (yet).
> ________________


aaak. you should have kept the older poppler package ideosyncracies!

Roger, please repackage poppler along the old package standards.

that is to say: nothing in /opt/csw/bin
Then you can remove the xpdf conflict also.