On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 07:42:04AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > [...]
> >Any suggestions for a better way to do this in the future will be
> >greatly appreciated :-)
> >
> 
> Something I tried -- but failed at -- was to look at the package 
> database and -- given a starting point -- to build a dependency tree so 
> that I'd know what order in which to buind things.  But I couldn't 
> figure out where the dependency information for compilation was stored, 
> and I didn't have time to pursue it.

*cough* I tried and succeeded. Still there's a problem in my patch
left, I think I located it recently, and will fix it soon so hopefully
abs can include it *wink*. My pkg_chk also keeps backups of working
versions (via pkg_tarup, before updating the sources, that's one step),
so when something fails you can simply pkg_add. It has some other goodies,
too, but as I said, still partially broken.

-Martin