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I have my openbsd 3.7 cdroms. I upgraded my 3.6. I cvsd the 3.7 ports tree. I now go to install firefox (1.0). I get a halt that indicates there is a conflict between my version of gmake and the patched version ports wants to install. I do not know how to clear that. Would some sort pkg_del type command on gmake be appropriate? Here is the output:

install -c -o root -g bin -m 444 /usr/ports/devel/gmake/w-gmake-3.80p0/make-3.80/make.1 /usr/ports/devel/gmake/w-gmake-3.80p0/fake-i386/usr/local/man/man1/gmake.1
===> Building package for gmake-3.80p0
Creating package /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/gmake-3.80p0.tgz
Creating gzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/i386/all/gmake-3.80p0.tgz'
Link to /usr/ports/packages/i386/ftp/gmake-3.80p0.tgz
Link to /usr/ports/packages/i386/cdrom/gmake-3.80p0.tgz
===> gmake-3.80p0 depends on: gettext->=0.10.38 - found
===> Installing gmake-3.80p0 from /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/gmake-3.80p0.tgz
Can't install gmake-3.80p0 because of conflicts (gmake-3.80)
/usr/sbin/pkg_add: /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/gmake-3.80p0.tgz:Fatal error
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake (line 1864 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firefox (line 1311 of /usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk).
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My experience is that this is insufficient by itself to give you success. If so, I recommend deleting all packages. I think you can do this pointing pkg-delete to the directory where the package names are. Note that this is not guaranteed in that I gave up at an earlier point and installed fresh rather than upgrading. There is some discussion about gmake problems on ports@openbsd.org.