Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:53:29 -0400 From: Frank Laszlo <laszlof@vonostingroup.com> To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>, Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dependency inheritance Message-ID: <446C9879.70606@vonostingroup.com> In-Reply-To: <20060518115558.GE1039@roadrunner.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <44682A60.1090701@gmx.de> <c21e92e20605150051h39dd482ct278c59fa92030458@mail.gmail.com> <4468361E.1090405@gmx.de> <20060518115558.GE1039@roadrunner.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > >> What I'd like to know is weather there is something wrong with my port. >> This problem makes it necessary to run 'pkgdb -F' to use portupgrade. >> Which is annoying in my opinion. >> > > A known problem. Prior to ghostscript-afpl being taken care of in > bsd.port.mk, I always had to fix dependencies from ghostscript-gpl -> > ghostscript->afpl. > > Same thing happens if you have lynx-ssl installed, and some other port > depends on lynx:www/lynx, it will find a lynx binary (of course) and > then blindly depend on www/lynx (wrong). > > A possible fix is to not record what's specified in the Makefile, as > this is only a suggestion on which port to install if the dep is not > satisfied. But to use the output of pkg_info -qo `pkg_info -qW lynx` > which will return www/lynx-ssl on my system. > Something like this wouldn't be a bad idea, in my opinion. > Problem: If lynx has been installed by hand, the pkg_info calls will > fail and you'd have to fallback to the suggestion provided in the > Makefile. > I'd say this isnt a problem, as the ports system doesnt really work nicely with manually installed applications anyways, perhaps it could fall over to the current way of finding dependencies if the pkg_info fails? __________________________________________________ Frank Laszlo System Administrator The VonOstin Group Email: laszlof@tvog.net WWW: http://www.vonostingroup.com Mobile: 248-863-7584
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