Re: Is it possible to blacklist a package and its reverse dependencies?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 10:20, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 at 09:35, Ottavio Caruso
> <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I put this in my mk.conf:
> >
> > PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS= -dbus
> >
> > but pkgsrc will still build and install dbus if it's listed as dependency.
> >
> > I'd like to understand the logic behind this pkgsrc behaviour.
>
>
> You could add something like this to your mk.conf (never build is a
> space separated list of PKGPATH values)
>
> NEVER_BUILD=sysutils/dbus
> if !empty(NEVER_BUILD:M${PKGPATH})
>   BROKEN?=NEVER_BUILD set
> endif

Thanks. I'll try that.

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Ottavio Caruso