Re: Binary package for spamassassin requires excessive dependencies?

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2020-03-09 at 06:43 GMT, Dave Ellis wrote:

> On 2020-03-08 12:50 p.m., Dave Ellis wrote:
> > I'll update this thread once I figure out where the problem is.  If
> > anyone has any ideas please feel welcome to make suggestions.
> > 
> Solved!
> 
> So the problem appears to have been created when I added a second repository
> address to repositories.conf.
> 
> During an earlier install on another system some packages weren't showing up
> in the 9.0/All directory yet, so I added a second line to repositories.conf
> file listing the 8.1/All directory on this system too.  Only in doing so I
> accidentally left a trailing "/" at the end and this seems to be the source
> of the problem, so entirely self-inflicted.
> 
>     #
>     # Pkgin repositories list
>     #
>     http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/9.0/All
>     http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/8.1/All/
> 
> By either removing the trailing slash or second line entirely the problem is
> fixed and binary packages install as expected.

Just to clarify: it wasn't the slash causing the problem, but by
removing it pkgin will have refreshed the database as the repository
has changed, so if it was stale data causing the problem then just
removing the slash would have fixed it.

FWIW this really isn't supported.  You should only use multiple
repositories if each of the repositories contains distinct packages.
Mixing will cause problems, as you've discovered, which may exhibit in
odd behaviour like that described.

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