[tor-talk] Cannot upgrade tor-devel

[Orionjur Tor-admin]

Robert Ransom wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:56:26 +0000
> Orionjur Tor-admin <tor-admin at orionjurinform.com> wrote:
> 
>> When I run `portupgrade -a` on my server under FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE, I
>> have the next message of thesystem:
>> "--->  Upgrading 'tor-devel-0.2.2.22.a' to 'tor-devel-0.2.2.22.a_2'
>> (security/tor-devel)
>> --->  Building '/usr/ports/security/tor-devel'
>> ===>  Cleaning for tor-devel-0.2.2.22.a_2
>> ===>  License BSD accepted by the user
>> ===>  Found saved configuration for tor-0.2.1.25
>>
>> ===>  tor-devel-0.2.2.22.a_2 conflicts with installed package(s):
>>       libevent-1.4.14b_2
>>
>>       They will not build together.
>>       Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1)."
>>
>> Why the older version works with it and new don't want to work? And
>> whether I really need to deleate my "libeent"?
> 
> The new version will still work with libevent-1.4.14b_2 installed, but
> the FreeBSD tor-devel port has been changed to link Tor against
> libevent-2.0.10 now that it has been released, and if you build Tor
> with both versions of libevent installed, Tor will be compiled with the
> include files from libevent 2 and linked to libevent 1, which won't
> work.
> 
> To install the tor-devel port,
> * uninstall libevent-1.4.14b_2 temporarily (the portupgrade tools
>   should include something that will create a 'backup' package of a
>   port while uninstalling it),
> * install the tor-devel port,
> * then reinstall libevent-1.4.14b_2 (preferably from your package).
> 
> 
> Robert Ransom
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------libevent-2.0.10----------
> 
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Very thanks.
After removing libevent-1.4.14b_2 it installs libevent-2.0.10 when
running `portupgrade`.
Does it need to me to downgrade  libevent-2.0.10 to libevent-1.4.14b_2
after upgrading tor-devel?