Re: Binary package for spamassassin requires excessive dependencies?

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

* On 2020-03-09 at 12:03 GMT, Ottavio Caruso wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 at 09:58, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> 
> This is probably self-explanatory, however, the instructions in
> etc/pkgin/repositories.conf
> are not clear:
> 
> $ cat /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf
> # Simply add repositories URIs one below the other
> 
> "Simply" might lead someone to thinking it's just ok to add as many
> repos as possible (à la Debian).
> 
> # WARNING: order matters, duplicates will not be added, if two
> # repositories hold the same package, it will be fetched from
> # the first one listed in this file.
> 
> This is not what happened to the OP. If I've got it right, he did get
> duplicates.

Yeh, we should re-word that.

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