problem between gnome & gdm

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:33:43PM +0100, tmaurizio at alice.it said:
> I  am trying to build gnome and now that i am near the end, when arrive to 
> compile gnome-session,
> terminal say me:
>
> ################
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ 
> share/xsessions/gnome.desktop is being used by the active gdm port.   
> Please deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the  
> activation.
>
> if I uninstall gdm, say the contrary,
> can you say me why?

Both ports want to install that file, which (looking at the one provided by
gnome-session) looks like some sort of configuration/strings file.  We need
to find out which port should be the proper owner of this file, and have the
other delete it during destroot.  Or, if there's a utility that can edit or
update it, we can use that during a post-activate step.

Anyone know the deal with this file?

Bryan


>
> regards
> maurizio