Subject: Re: pkg/36798: multimedia/ns-flash requires rpm2pkg
To: None <pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 08/17/2007 16:35:02
The following reply was made to PR pkg/36798; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: obache@NetBSD.org, pkg-manager@NetBSD.org,
gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, pkgsrc-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/36798: multimedia/ns-flash requires rpm2pkg
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:31:00 -0400
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