Re: Patterns like >=x.*

To: tech-pkg%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: Patterns like >=x.*
From: David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:15:48 +0000

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:22:00PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
 > 0 bmpx>pwd
 > /usr/pkgsrc/audio/bmpx
 > 0 bmpx>make show-depends | grep 'boost-libs>=1'
 > boost-libs>=1.55.*:../../devel/boost-libs
 > 0 0 bmpx>
 > 
 > I believe patterns like >=x.* and the like are wrong. Can we avoid them
 > by checking {BUILD_,}DEPENDS and CONFLICTS at the time of package build?

That does seem wrong, but it seems more like a job for pkglint.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost

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