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Date:      15 Feb 2001 03:24:31 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
Cc:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, Paul Richards <paul@FreeBSD-Services.co.uk>, Leif Neland <leif@neland.dk>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pkg_update
Message-ID:  <xzp66icadk0.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Paul Richards's message of "Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:55:39 %2B0000"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102080152030.58657-100000@arnold.neland.dk> <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> <3A8AC69B.6C901249@originative.co.uk>

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Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> writes:
> 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.

porteasy (/usr/ports/misc/porteasy) goes to great lengths to determine
the actual dependencies of a specific port. You might have better luck
trying to hack an update function into porteasy than using pkg_update.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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