Subject: Re: Package installed even if dependency fails
To: David Brownlee <abs@formula1.com>
From: Julio Merino <jmmv@hispabsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/23/2002 15:20:04
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:11:10 +0100 (BST)
David Brownlee <abs@formula1.com> wrote:

> 	In this case the ghostscript build failed, but the system still
> 	went ahead and installed if-psprint. Am I missing something?

I got the same problem the other day; pkgsrc tried to install openssl
(because my system was not yet updated) but it failed because the license.
Although, it kept building the packages which depend on it... quite strange.

> 
> /pkgsrc/print/if-psprint)23# make update
> work -> /var/obj/pkg/print/if-psprint/work
> pkg_info: No matching pkg for if-psprint-[0-9]*.
> => Checksum OK for if-psprint-1.5.tar.gz.
> ===> Extracting for if-psprint-1.5
> ===> Required package ghostscript{,-nox11}-[6-9]*: NOT found
> ===> Verifying package for ../../print/ghostscript
> ===> ghostscript-6.01nb4 uses X11, but /usr/X11R6 not found
> ===> Returning to build of if-psprint-1.5
> [...]
> 
> -- 
> 		David Brownlee/absolute          abs@formula1.com
> 
> 


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