Subject: Re: break in pkgsrc (cannot update anymore) ?
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: Laurent Marechal <MARECHAL@nl.ibm.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/21/2003 17:51:26
Thanks

That was it.

a leftover distinfo file, removing it fixed the problem.

Thanks

Laurent\


Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org> wrote on 21-11-2003 05:24:07 PM:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 05:05:35PM +0100, Laurent Marechal wrote:
> > I changed to the master sup server (sup.netbsd.org) instead of the
> > french one, but same issue.  I'll wait until monday andd see if it's
> > better or not.
> 
> make sure you have rev. 1.1302 of bsd.pkg.mk or later:
> 
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.1302
> date: 2003/11/20 15:07:53;  author: cube;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -1
> When there is no distinfo file, do not apply patches we would not
> normally apply: treat them as if the distinfo file was empty.
> 
> This solves the reason why pkgtools/pkg_install/distinfo was 
resurrected,
> and allows us to remove it again, since it had the side effect of
> introducing a dependency on digest, which is not acceptable when 
updating
> pkg_install: it made it impossible to use the pkgsrc tree, as reported
> by several people.
> ----------------------------
> 
> and no distinfo in packages/pkg_install
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> -- 
> -- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>                   --
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