From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 14 9:55:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA6B37B65D; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:55:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from originative.co.uk (lobster.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4D691D149; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:55:33 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3A8AC69B.6C901249@originative.co.uk> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:55:39 +0000 From: Paul Richards X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Paul Richards , Leif Neland , Nik Clayton , "Michael C . Wu" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_update References: <20010207202335.C20454@peorth.iteration.net> <20010208232645.A86390@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <00c501c092ec$678e73a0$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> <3A8A9FD6.B91CE40E@FreeBSD-Services.co.uk> <20010214123149.A9698@london.physics.purdue.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Will Andrews wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:10:14PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote: > > The problem is that 'make install' in a port doesn't check dependencies > > properly, whereas pkg_install does. > > Uh, actually, 'make install' does a better job. pkg_install has no > clue about substitute dependencies. Ahh, that makes sense. That's what's happening then, 'make install' is succeeding because it's using substitute dependencies but pkg_install fails because the specific packages it expects to see are missing. I misinterpreted the fact that pkg_install was complaining to mean it was being more thorough. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message