Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:51:39 +0800 From: "Jiawei Ye" <leafy7382@gmail.com> To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dependency inheritance Message-ID: <c21e92e20605150051h39dd482ct278c59fa92030458@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44682A60.1090701@gmx.de> References: <44682A60.1090701@gmx.de>
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On 5/15/06, [LoN]Kamikaze <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> wrote:
> First of all I don't understand why it should have any dependencies
> apart from portupgrade.
> The second problem is that apart from ruby-1.8.4_6,1 and perl-5.8.8,
> which were obviously inherited from portupgrade, why does it inherit the
> wrong version of ruby-bdb and why doesn't it inherit bdb4?
During my conversation with the author of portmanager, we found that
pkg_* tools look at the ports Makefiles instead of the installed
db/pkg/+CONTENTS when determining the dependancies. Portmanager did an
excellent job resolving these dependancy things, but it is not in
active development now.
Jiawei Ye
--=20
"Without the userland, the kernel is useless."
--inspired by The Tao of Programming
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