Re: pkg_install.conf not read anymore?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2013, Patrick Welche wrote:

> Just checked and indeed, I have a /etc/pkg_install.conf file and
> make show-var VARNAME=ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES doesn't list the licences
> defined in it, so this behaviour must have changed and I didn't notice...

I just had opportunity to run this on the macppc (HEAD) and amd64
(netbsd-6) systems and it behaves the same.

But then to confirm, I tried to build an affected package and the process
started without a problem, so it's more subtle than that.

This behavior was called to my attention by the ghostscript changes
wherein the flavor selected depends on whether the less-desirable license
tag was in the ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES variable.  As has been my practice
since the option appeared, I put the license tag addition in
"/etc/pkg_install.conf".

While this let me build the preferred flavor of ghostscript directly,
at least one package that depends on ghostscript fails to notice that
the alternative has been selected via license-acceptance and so proceed
with building the other alternative.

If I put the license tag addition in "mk.conf", the alternative-
dependency-checking succeeds.

It may also be relevant that I'm using 'pkg_rolling-replace' to do
the update of my package installation.

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