Re: Missing packages/symlinks in http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD-3.1/sparc/All (was "sparc (sparc32!) binary packages needed...")

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:11:48PM +0200, Volkmar Seifert wrote:
> > Actually glib2-2.14.4.tgz exists in All/, with a symlink in devel/.
> > I don't see a problem here, can you explain ?
> 
> No, only that pkg_add told me for all packages deoending on that lib that
> it was missing. I have installed it from devel/ in the meantime, so I
> cannot even give it another try. The backlog of my screen doesn't have the
> appropriate error-messages anymore, so I cannot even post them, sorry.
> What I can do is a pkg_delete glib2, and do everything again...if that
> might help tracking down the problem. May be it's a privilege-thing?

I don't think so. Maybe it's just the regular expression in pkg_add that
failed to find it ...
Did you install using the http URL ? I'm not sure pkg_add can find
dependancies with metacharacter over anything but plain ftp ...

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