Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:38:48 -0600 From: John E Hein <jhein@timing.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conflicting dependency Message-ID: <17599.41864.770942.12767@gromit.timing.com> In-Reply-To: <44BF96D9.5080100@mac.com> References: <17598.52872.765184.211253@gromit.timing.com> <44BF877E.70208@mac.com> <17599.37113.693799.8184@gromit.timing.com> <44BF96D9.5080100@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote at 10:44 -0400 on Jul 20, 2006: > > If the porter listed A as the dependency and libfoo is already > > installed via B, what is the mechanism in the ports infrastructure by > > which B gets registered as the dependency? > > The package database keeps track of all files installed by ports and knows > which port installed which file. See "man pkg_which". Then I am seeing different behavior for some reason. I see a @pkgdep entry for an uninstalled port. I'll see if I can track down why.
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