Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost> writes: > According to the documentation pkg_add(8) should remove flag "automatic" > if the package already has it and -A option was not passed to pkg_add. > > -A Mark package as installed automatically, as dependency of another > package. You can use > pkg_admin set automatic=YES > to mark packages this way after installation, and > pkg_admin unset automatic > to remove the mark. If you pkg_add a package without specifying > -A after it had already been automatically installed, the mark is > removed. > > Reality is the following > > asrock# pkg_info -Q automatic autoconf213 > yes > asrock# pkg_add -UD /srv/pkgsrc_bin/NetBSD/x86_64/cache/All/autoconf213-2.13nb4.tgz > pkg_add: Warning: package `autoconf213-2.13nb4' was built for a platform: > pkg_add: NetBSD/x86_64 6.0 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/x86_64 6.1_STABLE (this host) > autoconf213-2.13nb4: unregistering info file /usr/pkg/info/autoconf213.info > autoconf213-2.13nb4: registering info file /usr/pkg/info/autoconf213.info > asrock# pkg_info -Q automatic autoconf213 > yes > asrock# > > As you can see "automatic" is still here. > Am I doing something wrong? The docs are off. "pkg_add -U" is special, for updating a package in place. The fact that you want to update a package to a newer version is not a clue that you want to make it not automatic. But running pkg_add without -U on a package that is installed is such a clue. pkg_add -U is used by make replace (and thus pkg_rolling-replace), and it's important that make replace not lose the automatic flag. Presumably nih does pkg_add -U, and this also isn't mean to the change the automatic flag. Similarly to bare pkg_add -U, "update all my packages" does not contain a hint that packages should be marked non-automatic. I am pretty sure if you use pkg_add without -U it will do as you expect. Other than testing the man page (fair enough), what was your intent when running "pkg_add -UD"? Did you do that because some tool said it was out of date?
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