Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: kieber@ga-telecom.net (Ulf Kieber) To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/9486: knews package depends on non-existent other package Message-ID: <199901141840.KAA05737@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/9486; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: kieber@ga-telecom.net (Ulf Kieber)
To: brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu (Brett Taylor)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ports/9486: knews package depends on non-existent other package
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 19:32:46 +0100 (CET)
Brett Taylor writes:
>
> > >Synopsis: knews package depends on non-existent other package
>
> > >Description:
> >
> > The pre-compiled package ``knews-1.0b.0.tgz'' has a dependency
> > on and requires to be installed a package named
> > ``mp-letter-3.0.1'', but there is neither a package nor a port
> > ``mp-letter-3.0.1''.
>
> peloton> more /usr/ports/print/mp-letter/Makefile
> -snip-
> PKGNAME= mp-${PAPERSIZE}-3.0.1
>
> And hence the dependency...
/stand/sysinstall complains that it is unable ftp-fetch
``mp-letter-3.0.1'' from ftp.freebsd.org and the ports tarball for
3.0-RELEASE also doesn't contain ``mp-letter-3.0.1'', hence I consider
this a bug.
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