Re: pkg/56597 (Deinstallation of compat90 destroys netbsd-9)

[Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/56597; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: he%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
	mlelstv%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/56597 (Deinstallation of compat90 destroys netbsd-9)
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 18:39:29 +0100

 On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 02:35:01PM +0000, Havard Eidnes wrote:
 
 >  I see the submitter reports with 9.99.85.  By the looks of it,
 >  the compat90 package was generated against
 
 The system runs 9.99.85, but the build runs in a netbsd-9 chroot
 with libkver pretending that this is a netbsd-9.0 system.
 
 The package Makefile also lets it build under netbsd-9.0 which
 doesn't make sense for a netbsd-9.0 compatibility package.
 
 I'm also confused about emulator.mk that tells:
 
 EMUL_DISTRO=            netbsd-9.99.82
 
 
 In any case, the package must not erase things it didn't install.
 The minimum should be to verify that the deinstallation removes
 symlinks to files installed by the package, not anything else
 under that name.
 
 
 N.B. the error doesn't occur on aarch64 and maybe other archs as
 the distfile checksum is bad.
 
 
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