Re: Muddled wrt pkgsrc

[Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost>]

Am 10.03.2014 um 20:43 schrieb Bob Bernstein 
<poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost>:

> After a long delay I have finally upgraded my netbsd machine to 6.1.3, and 
> refreshed the /usr/pkgsrc tree to pkgsrc-2013Q4. I then charged off to build 
> claws-mail and ran into a bit of pesky business that has always baffled me.
> 
> At every turn, as claws-mail ground through its build, I was confronted with 
> the need to pkg-delete older versions of its many, many dependencies.
> 
> Is there a way to tell pkgsrc simply to 'pkg_delete -f' all these older 
> versions of dependencies as and when the build wishes to replace them with 
> uptodate versions?

The inability to properly deal with binary packages and updates of binary 
packages is one of the largest drawbacks of the pkgsrc packaging system (but 
it's probably named pkg_src_ for a reason).