Re: pkg/38794: bootstrap fails on IRIX

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/38794; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: "Stuart Shelton" <srcshelton%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/38794: bootstrap fails on IRIX
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 19:19:01 +0200

 > I now have a greater problem: bootstrapping has completed, and I have
 > bmake installed again.  But for all of the packages which are now
 > marked as "not for deletion" I can't do anything with them!  Running
 > bmake with arguments "reinstall", "update", "replace", or "install"
 > all results in a "ERROR: <package> is already installed - perhaps an
 > older version".
 > 
 > Will this go away as updates to each package are released?
 
 In a nutshell (and yes that this isn't documented is a major flaw):
 
 tnn@c3k6:bmake> uname -a
 HP-UX c3k6 B.11.11 U 9000/785 2005683377 unlimited-user license
 tnn@c3k6:bmake> pwd
 /co/pkgsrc/devel/bmake
 tnn@c3k6:bmake> /usr/pkg/bin/bmake USE_DESTDIR=full package
 ===> Installing dependencies for bmake-20080215nb1
 [...]
 ===> Building binary package for bmake-20080215nb1
 => Creating binary package /tmp/packages/All/bmake-20080215nb1.tgz
 tnn@c3k6:bmake> pkg_delete -ff bmake
 tnn@c3k6:bmake> pkg_add /tmp/packages/All/bmake-20080215nb1.tgz