From owner-freebsd-ports  Tue Jun  3 23:25:02 1997
Return-Path: <owner-ports>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA28475
          for ports-outgoing; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:25:02 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA28464
          for <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:24:55 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA05543; Tue, 3 Jun 1997 23:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
To: Tim Pushor <timp@orion.ab.ca>
cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Ahhhh More pkg_add problems 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Jun 1997 21:30:05 -0000."
             <Pine.BSI.3.96.970603212413.22762A-100000@centaur.orion.ab.ca> 
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 23:24:54 -0700
Message-ID: <5540.865405494@time.cdrom.com>
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

> I am attempting to create a package containing software I wrote for easy
> installation. The problem is that my package requires another package to
> be installed. I use the @pkgdep statement in the packing list to state the
> dependancy.
> 
> When I try to install my package and I don't have the package my package
> depends on installed, it installs anyway, but gives me an error (kind of)
> like this:
> 
> /var/spool/db/pkg/<name>/+REQUIRED BY not found

Hmmmm.  That _should_ work - let me look into it.

> 2) (somewhat unrelated0 is there a way that I can abort the install based
> on the return value of a shell script? For example, I tried:

Yes, that's what the "requirements" script is for - take a look
at the man page for pkg_create.

					Jordan