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post Problem Updating Samba in FreeBSD 2018-02-21 21:39:24 -0800 freebsd ports samba pidl

Usually updating FreeBSD versions is pretty easy for me, but I did run into a hiccup during portmaster -a:

Installing samba44-4.4.16_1...
pkg-static: samba44-4.4.16_1 conflicts with p5-Parse-Pidl44-4.4.16 (installs files into the same place).  Problematic file: /usr/local/bin/pidl
*** Error code 70

Apparently samba now comes with its own pidl due to a bug in the perl version of it. So deleting the package first fixed the issue:

pkg delete -f p5-Parse-Pidl p5-Parse-Pidl44