Re: pkg/42607 (pkg_add hangs in ftp when there are dependencies (multiple packages))

[Louis Guillaume <louis%zabrico.com@localhost>]

On 1/23/10 3:07 PM, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> Synopsis: pkg_add hangs in ftp when there are dependencies (multiple packages)
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost
> State-Changed-When: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:07:15 +0000
> State-Changed-Why:
> Did Joerg's commit fix the problem?

I've only been able to test on NetBSD so far; and it appears to work.

However the change is only present in the pkgsrc distribution. It works 
with pkgsrc-2009Q4 as well. But this has not been committed to 
netbsd-current (as of 2 weeks ago) nor to netbsd-5. These latter ones 
are probably more important.

A new install of NetBSD should be able to install binary packages by 
setting PKG_PATH and just letting it rip. A further obstacle here is 
that the user must use /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_add rather than just "pkg_add" 
and that could be confusing, especially as the default PATH has the 
/usr/sbin before /usr/pkg/sbin.

If we can get these pullups I think it's good! In fact it's great.

I don't understand why there was little or no noise about this one. Do 
most people not use pkg_add over FTP for binary packages??

For me this was a very painful bug and also embarrassing when my 
attempts to show new [potential] pkgsrc users how great it is miserably 
fail!

So thank you very, very much for fixing this.


Louis