Re: Updating both Perl and Perl Modules from a binary repository

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 03:33:41PM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote:
 > > What does "pkg_add -u perl p5-Foo p5-Bar" say?
 >
 > I don't remember exactly, but in essence "this doesn't work".
 >
 > I think, it was that it couldn't install perl-5.14 because p5-*
 > depended on perl<5.14. And it couldn't update p5-Foo because that
 > would imply updating perl from 5.12 to 5.14, whereas p5-Bar
 > depended on perl<5.14.
 >
 > My impression was that pkg_add failed to realise that if if would
 > do *all* the updates at once, the result would be consistent, but
 > bailed out because there was no path of *gradually* performing the
 > updates that would, in each step, keep the dependencies fulfilled.

That would be a bug.

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David A. Holland
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