Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:28:13 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au> Cc: bartol@salk.edu, current@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9904090924120.26441-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <99Apr9.085646est.40354@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On installation, the packages database stores both dependency
> directions. /var/db/pkg/<PACKAGE>/+CONTENTS contains the list of
> pre-requisite packages in `@pkgdep' records. The +CONTENTS file is
> part of the package. /var/db/pkg/<PACKAGE>/+REQUIRED_BY contains the
> `required-by' list and is maintained automatically by the package
> management tools (eg installing `foo' which depends on `bar' adds
> a line `foo' to /var/db/pkg/bar/+REQUIRED_BY, which is removed if
> the package in removed).
I've never found the +REQUIRED_BY data to be consistently maintained for me -
i.e. there are usually dependent packages referenced there which no longer
exist on my system, several versions of packages when I've done a remove
old/add new version, etc. I should spend some time to try and figure out
what's causing this inconsistency..does anyone else see behaviour like this?
Kris
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