Re: Some binary packages missing on ftp servers

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Raymond Meyer wrote:
> pkg_add: no pkg found for 'p5-perl-headers-3.0nb3', sorry.
> pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
> 
> As you can imagine it's pretty annoying. Any reason why that package is
> missing??

>From the Makefile:

# Since this package will be named, for instance, p5-perl-headers-1.5.1,
# binary packages on a FTP server (where only "1.5" is used as the directory
# name) will be ambiguous.  A user of 1.5 may mistakenly install the
# perl-headers-1.5.1 pkg by use of the automatic "best version" logic.

NO_BIN_ON_FTP=          FTP servers do not distinguish A.B.X revisions of 
versions