Re: Some binary packages missing on ftp servers

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

> It's not the first time that I try to install a packages and it fails, 
> because a dependant packages is missing on ftp server.
> 
> For example packages-2006Q2/NetBSD-3.0/i386
> 
> 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??


The package Makefile has:

# 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


Yes, this would be annoying. What packages did you attempt to install? And 
what other dependencies are missing.

I don't know this package but I do know we should provide all needed 
dependencies for any packages we provide. We can't assume everyone can 
build packages and we should make it easy to install packages.