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Hi,

I sent this to gnats earlier today, but figured I should post it
here for discussion. Assuming this works for the original filer,
the PR probably can be closed.  However, I am curious about the
behavior of DEPENDS_TARGET.  Is there some reason that it doesn't
default to bin-install when bin-install is the make target?  If
not, perhaps it should.  If so, perhaps we could add some text to
section 4.2.3 of the manual?

Cheers,
Chris


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To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/28764
From: cwr@nexthop.com (Christopher W. Richardson)
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:48:25 -0400
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Hi,

I ran into this same problem (bin-install unexpectedly not
installing dependencies which already exist as binary packages),
and I don't think it's a bug (though it did take me a while to
figure out how to fix it).  It appears that the solution is to
set DEPENDS_TARGET="bin-install".  To fix it for the pkg_comp
case, just add

DEPENDS_TARGET="bin-install"
MKCONF_VARS="DEPENDS_TARGET"

to your .conf file. Perhaps we should change the DEPENDS_TARGET
to default to bin-install when bin-install is the primary target?


Cheers,
Chris

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