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Re: Proposed fix for long-standing +CONTENTS bug



* On 2020-04-22 at 12:01 BST, Jonathan Perkin wrote:

> Doing something like trying to match for the non-PKGNAME part of a
> pattern feels like it could be pretty fragile.  For now my best idea
> is for pkg_add to re-arrange its command line arguments to ensure that
> packages are upgraded in dependency order, as either putting vim-share
> last or removing it completely as I mentioned will avoid the problem,
> but if anyone has any better ideas...

Oh, I see mk/pkgformat/pkg/replace.mk just kludges the +CONTENTS
files.  I thought about that but it feels wrong to me, but maybe it's
the best (only?) option for pkg_install to do the same?

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com


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