Subject: Re: pkg/36798: multimedia/ns-flash requires rpm2pkg
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 08/17/2007 12:31:00
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:10:06 +0000 (UTC)
"OBATA Akio" <obache@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR pkg/36798; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
> 
> From: "OBATA Akio" <obache@netbsd.org>
> To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: pkg/36798: multimedia/ns-flash requires rpm2pkg
> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:08:27 +0900
> 
>  On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:30:03 +0900, Steven M. Bellovin
> <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote: 
>  >  /usr/pkgsrc/mk/extract/extract: /usr/pkg/bin/rpm2pkg: not found
>  
>  Your mk/tools/replace.mk is probably old.  Please update to revision
> 1.195. 

Right, I have 1.194, from July 31.  I'll update it; thanks.

>  >  >  Please send real errors.
>  > I will assume that that is a language issue and not you trying to
>  > be rude.
>  
>  The majority of the World people are not native English speaker:-)
>  I often spend much much more more time writing English than solving
> a problem. But I cannot write complete English...

No problem -- and your English is much better than my Japanese...  (I
added my comment because your phraseology was -- to a native English
speaker -- rather rude.  I apologize for my remark.)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb