Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:04:46 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Jiawei Ye <leafy7382@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dependency inheritance Message-ID: <4468361E.1090405@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <c21e92e20605150051h39dd482ct278c59fa92030458@mail.gmail.com> References: <44682A60.1090701@gmx.de> <c21e92e20605150051h39dd482ct278c59fa92030458@mail.gmail.com>
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Jiawei Ye wrote: > On 5/15/06, [LoN]Kamikaze <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> wrote: >> First of all I don't understand why it should have any dependencies >> apart from portupgrade. >> The second problem is that apart from ruby-1.8.4_6,1 and perl-5.8.8, >> which were obviously inherited from portupgrade, why does it inherit the >> wrong version of ruby-bdb and why doesn't it inherit bdb4? > During my conversation with the author of portmanager, we found that > pkg_* tools look at the ports Makefiles instead of the installed > db/pkg/+CONTENTS when determining the dependancies. Portmanager did an > excellent job resolving these dependancy things, but it is not in > active development now. > > Jiawei Ye > 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. Since dependencies are travelled recursively I think inheriting only makes it more difficult to maintain the package database, without gaining anything from it. I consider this a bug in the Ports system that should be fixed.
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