The following reply was made to PR pkg/36798; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: obache@NetBSD.org, pkg-manager@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/36798: multimedia/ns-flash requires rpm2pkg
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:25:39 -0400

 On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:30:03 +0000 (UTC)
 "OBATA Akio" <obache@NetBSD.org> wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/36798; it has been noted by
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "OBATA Akio" <obache@netbsd.org>
 > To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/36798: multimedia/ns-flash requires rpm2pkg
 > Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:27:30 +0900
 > 
 >  On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:45:00 +0900, <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
 >  
 >  >> Description:
 >  > 	When doing a pkg_comp build, I couldn't create
 >  > multimedia/ns-flash because rpm2pkg didn't exist.
 >  >> How-To-Repeat:
 >  > 	See above
 >  >> Fix:
 >  > 	Explicitly install the rpm2pkg package first...
 >  
 >  Package multimedia/ns-flash itself doesn't use rpm2pkg.  No error
 > occured. Probably depending packages use rpm2pkg.
 
 Here's the exact error in my log:
 
 ===> Installing dependencies for ns-flash-9.0.48
 ==========================================================================
 The supported build options for ns-flash are:
 
         nspluginwrapper
   
 The currently selected options are:
 
         nspluginwrapper 
   
 You can select which build options to use by setting PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS
 or the following variable.  Its current value is shown:
 
         PKG_OPTIONS.ns-flash (not defined)
 
 ==========================================================================
 => Required installed package nspluginwrapper>0: NOT found
 => Verifying package for ../../www/nspluginwrapper
 => Required installed package digest>=20010302: digest-20070803 found
 => Required installed package checkperms>=1.1: checkperms-1.7 found
 ===> Skipping vulnerability checks.
 WARNING: No /var/db/pkg/pkg-vulnerabilities file found.
 WARNING: To fix run: `download-vulnerability-list'.
 => Checksum SHA1 OK for nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.3.tar.bz2
 => Checksum SHA1 OK for nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.3-1.x86_64.rpm
 => Checksum RMD160 OK for nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.3.tar.bz2
 => Checksum RMD160 OK for nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.3-1.x86_64.rpm
 ===> Installing dependencies for nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.3nb1
 => Required installed package gmake>=3.78: gmake-3.81 found
 => Required installed package pkg-config>=0.19: pkg-config-0.21nb1 found
 => Required installed package rpm2pkg>=2.1: rpm2pkg-2.1.1nb2 found
 => Required installed package kbproto>=1.0.2: kbproto-1.0.3 found
 => Required installed package xproto>=7.0.9: xproto-7.0.10 found
 => Required installed package suse_base>=6.4: suse_base-10.0nb5 found
 => Required installed package suse_gtk2>=6.4: suse_gtk2-10.0nb4 found
 => Required installed package suse_x11>=6.4: suse_x11-10.0nb3 found
 => Required installed package glib2>=2.8.6nb1: glib2-2.12.13 found
 => Required installed package libXt>=1.0.0: libXt-1.0.5 found
 => Required installed package libX11>=1.1: libX11-1.1.3 found
 ===> Overriding tools for nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.3nb1
 ===> Extracting for nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.3nb1
 /usr/pkgsrc/mk/extract/extract: /usr/pkg/bin/rpm2pkg: not found
 *** Error code 127
 
 Stop.
 make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/www/nspluginwrapper
 *** Error code 1
 
 Stop.
 make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/www/nspluginwrapper
 *** Error code 1
 
 Stop.
 make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/ns-flash
 
 
 >  
 >  Please send real errors.
 
 I will assume that that is a language issue and not you trying to be rude.
 
 
 
 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb