hi, the general question is, whether there already exists a common pattern, what to do, when a installation routine wants to modify an existing file of an already installed port. Simply removing the previous port wouldn't work, since the new port depends on the old one. The story: Atm I am trying to create a p5-xml-libxml port on my own, without any patches. The p5-xml-libxml port depends on the p5-xml-sax port, which contains the file: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini. During the installation of p5-xml-libxml it (imho) wants to register itself as a sax parser, but can't, sice it doesn't have write permissions to this file (i am building my ports as unprivileged user)(see attached log file). Does anyone of you have a clue, how to tackle this problem? Fyi: The ports how they are atm are at [1] and a httpup file is at [2]. bye richi [1] http://www.deri.at/~richardp/ports/ [2] http://www.deri.at/~richardp/ports/namenlos.httpup -- quoting guide: http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html