Re: Suppressing version warning for binary package installs?

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:48:10 +0900, Justin C. Sherrill 
<justin%shiningsilence.com@localhost> wrote:

> DragonFly recently released version 2.4, but binary packages built for the
> development releases of 2.3.1 and 2.3.2 still work for it.  However,
> people adding these packages (especially with DragonFly's pkg_radd, which
> is a wrapper around pkg_add) will get a warning about it being built for a
> different version of the operating system.
>
> The warning generates more confusion than anything, in this case, since
> pkg_radd is designed to pick out the correct release's packages.

The information is OS_VERSION in BUILD_INFO.
So, OS_VERSION=2.3.2 means not "built for 2.3.2", but "built on 2.3.2".

I don't know how pkg_radd resolve "package XXX built on 2.3.2 works well on 
2.4".

> Is there a way to suppress the version warning when installing packages
> via pkg_add?  Alternately, is there a way to change the record for what
> operating system it was built for?  If there was a way to automate a
> change like that, I could run it over our package collection after each
> bulk build.

It is probably possible to extract package.tgz, replace OS_VERSION in 
+BUILD_INFO,
re-create package.tgz.

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