Subject: Re: Package update disaster
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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/07/2004 09:22:38
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 09:59:14PM +0200, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
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> This evening, after updating my pkgsrc, I used "lintpkgsrc -i" to find=20
> out what was out of date on my system. I noticed that I had a slightly=20
> older version of pth package. So I did:
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> cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/pth
> make update
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> Well, to my surprise and horror, this went on to erase my mysql-server=20
> package installation!

Well, deep dependencies are what PKGVIEWs are supposed to solve. I know=20
that the basic machinery is in the source tree now, but I understand that
some packages need to be updated to work with package views before they
can be made available.

Somebody from the pkgsrc crew please correct / update me.=20

Regards,
	-is

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