Re: How to change the dependencies a particular package has?

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2018-07-25 at 23:13 BST, Brian Buhrow wrote:

> 	hello Jonathan.  I saw the tools/flex.mk file.  I've now tried
> changing the minimum version listed there from 2.5.4, which is what is
> installed, to 2.5.0, just to see what would happen.  No change.  The system
> still wants to fetch and build 2.5.4a.  So it must be picking up  this
> requirement from somewhere else in the tree, but I can't figure out where.

Does the --version output match the sed script in that file?  Running:

  $ bmake show-var VARNAME=_TOOLS_PKG.flex

would be an easy way to check, it should print "flex-2.5.4".

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