Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 00:51:32 -0000 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "walt" <w41ter@gmail.com> Subject: Re: pkg_add -r doesn't process sub dependencies? Message-ID: <044701c880b6$8d81db00$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <034601c88085$2dc3c6f0$b6db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <fqsb5u$ltf$1@ger.gmane.org>
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From: "walt" <w41ter@gmail.com>
> 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.
I'm actually using PACKAGESITE which is meant to bypass all path
calculations but it simply doesn't. I've now found PKG_ADD_BASE
which seems to fix this issue but is not documented anywhere.
I had to dig around in the code to find it, where its commented
as:-
/* Special tip that sysinstall left for us */
It seems really strange that the default behaviour of pkg_add -r
can't deal with sub dependencies properly without this undocumented
feature.
Regards
Steve
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