Subject: Re: break in pkgsrc (cannot update anymore) ?
To: Laurent Marechal <MARECHAL@nl.ibm.com>
From: JS <oghistorian@yahoo.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/22/2003 05:32:24
Hi Lubomir,

Thanks for pointing out the issue with the extra
distinfo file.  I removed it, and it fixed my problem
also.

Thanks again,
J Silverman

--- Laurent Marechal <MARECHAL@nl.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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>            
>       --
> > --                  <salo@silcnet.org>            
>       --
> > [attachment "attbguq3.dat" deleted by Laurent
> Marechal/Netherlands/IBM] 


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