Re: make update perpetually broken

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

At 6:24 Uhr +0000 15.5.2009, John Klos wrote:
>I think I've run into the "make update" problem one too many times, so I
>have to ask - if nobody's going to fix our broken "make update" system,
>why don't we have pkg_rolling_replace as part of the default pkgsrc tools?

Because it comes with its own set of problems, see the thread
"pkg_rolling-replace calling 'make install'?" on
<http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-pkg/2007/08/oindex.html>, which can lead
to the same symptoms as

>===> install-message [p5-Email-MessageID-1.401] ===> Installing for
>p5-Email-MessageID-1.401
>ERROR: p5-Email-MessageID-1.401 is already installed - perhaps an older
>version?
>ERROR: If so, you may use either of:
>ERROR:     - "pkg_delete p5-Email-MessageID-1.401" and "/usr/bin/make
>reinstall"
>ERROR:       to upgrade properly

and require a similar amount of hand-holding.

        hauke

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