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Date:      Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:15:01 -0800
From:      walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_add -r doesn't process sub dependencies?
Message-ID:  <fqsb5u$ltf$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <034601c88085$2dc3c6f0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
References:  <034601c88085$2dc3c6f0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>

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Steven Hartland wrote:
> Seems if you have package X which depends on package Y which
> depends on package Z then pkg_add -r X will always fail unless
> you first :-
> 1. pkg_add -r Y
> 2. pkg_add -r Z
>
> The failure will be:-
> pkg_add: could not find package Z !
>
> This happens even though Z exists in the remote source package
> directory...

If you are using RELENG_7, pkg_add is looking in the wrong place
on the remote server for packages.  I just submitted a patch on
the -STABLE list for this problem.





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