From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 13:41:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D891716A4CE; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:41:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from grisu.bik-gmbh.de (grisu.bik-gmbh.de [217.110.154.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACD643D3F; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:41:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hars@bik-gmbh.de) Received: from [192.168.125.193] (prony.bik-gmbh.de [192.168.125.193]) by grisu.bik-gmbh.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2IDfJ9U073282; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:41:20 +0100 (CET). Message-ID: <423ADA7A.2030400@bik-gmbh.de> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:41:14 +0100 From: Florian Hars User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040924 Debian/1.7.3-1ubuntu1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <200503171912.j2HJC8wH090706@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200503171912.j2HJC8wH090706@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on grisu.bik-gmbh.de cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/78944: htdig depends on a very specific apache X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:41:33 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > It actually doesn't depend on a specific apache, it depends on > the value of ${APACHE_PORT}, which on the ports building > cluster is (has to be) a specific value. I tried to install the package, and it did indeed require this and only this version of apache, although it doesn't even need any apache at all. This is a serious design error of the ports/packages system. > You can also force the package to install without dependencies > if you need to use the package. And it will still download and try to install any packages it erroneously thinks it depends on. > For future reference, "Look at Debian" is a completely > useless suggestion Unlike FreeBSD, package management on debian mostly works, so the suggestion is far from useless. > You would have been better off talking > about this issue on freebsd-ports@freebsd.org. If you say so. And don't get me started on p5-DBD-Pg. Yours, Florian.