Subject: Re: xpm upgrade lossage -> xscreensaver, olvwm, xbatt, and more
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: Alistair Crooks <agc@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/09/2003 23:53:45
On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 06:28:02PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 12:07:57PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> > the next problem revolves around the actual dependencies of other pkgs
> > upon the xpm pkg.  they're all including xpm/buildlink2.mk properly,
> > but that defines the xpm pkg as 3.4k (which is not installed), not
> > 3.4knb1, so the xpm pkg was continually being rebuilt, failing to be
> > installed, and then killing my rebuild.  making this push through was
> > easy enough by setting BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.xpm=xpm-3.4knb1 in the
> > environment.  maybe the buildlink2.mk file needs to be updated?  maybe
> > something in the buildlink2 process is a bit broken?
> 
> I guess the buildlink2.mk is slightly broken, it has:
> BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.xpm?=         xpm-3.4k
> but probably should have
> BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.xpm?=         xpm>=3.4k
> except that I'm not sure that's gonna work, because of the non-Deweyness
> of the number.

It should work just fine.

[22:51:15] agc@sys1 ~ 196 > pkg_info -e nam
nam-1.0rc11a
[22:51:30] agc@sys1 ~ 197 > pkg_info -e 'nam<1.0rc11b'
nam-1.0rc11a
[22:51:41] agc@sys1 ~ 198 > pkg_info -V
20030202
[22:51:49] agc@sys1 ~ 199 >

Regards,
Alistair