Adrian Portelli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just seen some interesting behaviour with 'make replace' on one of
> my 3.x NetBSD boxes running pkgsrc HEAD checked out just a few minutes ago.
>
> I saw this with about 10 packages I ran 'make replace' on before I
> realised it wasn't actually replacing them.  It was just building the
> new package, removing the installed package and then stopping.
>
> Below is a shortened output from a 'make replace' on ImageMagick.
>
> adrian.
>
> ......
> /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/ImageMagick/work/.buildlink/lib/libjasper.so:
> warning: warning: tmpnam() possibly used unsafely, use mkstemp() or
> mkdtemp()
> => Unwrapping files-to-be-installed.
> ===> Replacing for ImageMagick-6.2.8.8nb1
> => Becoming ``root'' to make su-replace (/usr/bin/su)
> Password:
> Terminal type is screen.
> Creating binary package: ImageMagick-6.2.8.0
> Creating package
> /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/ImageMagick/work/ImageMagick-6.2.8.0.tgz
> Registering depends: mpeg2codec>=1.2 jasper>=1.701.0nb2
> libwmf>=0.2.8.4nb3 lcms>=1.12nb2 libexif>=0.6.13nb1 tiff>=3.7.2nb1.
> Registering conflicts:.
> => Preserving existing +REQUIRED_BY file.
> ===> Deinstalling for ImageMagick-6.2.8.8nb1
> Running /usr/bin/env  /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -K /var/db/pkg
> ImageMagick-6.2.8.0
> => Required installed package digest>=20010302: digest-20060302 found
> ===> Checking for vulnerabilities in ImageMagick-6.2.8.8nb1
> => Checksum SHA1 OK for
> ImageMagick-6.2.8-8-20060807/ImageMagick-6.2.8-8.tar.bz2
> => Checksum RMD160 OK for
> ImageMagick-6.2.8-8-20060807/ImageMagick-6.2.8-8.tar.bz2
> => Fixing @pkgdep entries in dependent packages.
> => Dropping ``root'' privileges.
> $
>   
I've noticed this as well. Running make install after make replace seems 
to work,
with preserved dependencies.

-Tobias