Subject: Re: Two pkgsrc bugs
To: John Klos <john@klos.com>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/17/2005 01:54:43
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:27:52PM -0400, John Klos wrote:
> One: after installing pkg_install, nothing will install before digest is 
> installed. digest is not installed with pkg_install, nor is it listed as 
> required for other packages. People new to pkgsrc would not know this, nor 
> that they'd be required to manually install digest.

I thought the first package with any patches or distfiles
automatically pulls in the digest dependency when you type
'make'?

> Two: after doing a "make install" in a directory, doing a "make update", 
> even if that package is not installed (for instance, if it was deleted or 
> if the "make install" was done in a chroot) basically does a "make clean", 
> but does not install the package.

That's a bug. Please report it with send-pr(1).

Thanks,
 Thomas