The following reply was made to PR pkg/34548; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34548 possible solution
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:12:52 +0200

 On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:50:02AM +0000, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
 >  REQPKGS_PRINT?=	tex-jadetex>=3.13 ghostscript{,-esp,-gnu}{,-nox11}>=7.05
 >  
 >  
 >  A few lines later (see possible patch below), the ghostscript part is expanded
 >  by the shell (bash) into six separate strings and pkg_info only finds one of
 >  them is installed, hence the failure.  Patch below to escape '{' and '}' works
 >  here, but needs verification for other OSs.
 
 I'd prefer to do:
 
 REQPKG.jadetex=	tex-jadetex>=3.13
 REQPKG.gs=	ghostscript{,-esp,-gnu}{,-nox11}>=7.05
 
 REQPKGS_PRINT=	${REQPKG.jadetex:Q} ${REQPKG.gs:Q}
 
 and change the loop to
 	for T in ${REQPKGS_PRINT}; do
 
 Can you try that?
 
 Joerg