qt related pkg upgrade problem

[Jack L.]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I tried the following today with the latest FreeBSD packages (FreeBSD:12:amd64):
>
> # pkg upgrade
> ...
> Checking integrity... done (7 conflicting)
>  - qtchooser-39 [FreeBSD] conflicts with qt4-linguisttools-4.8.7 [installed] on
> /usr/local/bin/lconvert
> ...
> Conflicts with the existing packages have been found.
> One more solver iteration is needed to resolve them.
> The following 178 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
> ...
> Number of packages to be installed: 1
> Number of packages to be upgraded: 107
> Number of packages to be reinstalled: 56
> The process will require 50 MiB more space.
> Proceed with this action? [y/N]: y
> [1/178] Installing qtchooser-39...
> pkg: qtchooser-39 conflicts with qt4-linguisttools-4.8.7 (installs files into
> the same place).  Problematic file: /usr/local/bin/lconvert
>
>
> I thought that that "one more solver iteration" resolved this.
> Shouldn't pkg first upgrade or remove the installed conflicting packages before
> trying to install qtchooser?
> I read UPDATING, it mentioned the big Qt change, but it didn't have any special
> upgrade instructions...
>
> How can I proceed from here?
> Thank you!


I just uninstalled qt4-linguisttools-4.8.7 and that fixed the issue