Subject: a DEPENDS question
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 06/30/2000 17:17:42
I knew sooner or later this would bite....
for some time, the pvm package existed in pkgsrc as 'pvm-3.4.7',
unfortunately it was really 3.4_BETA7. Ie, pre-3.4
Next we had pvm-3.4.2 (2nd patch release to 3.4) which was newer than
3.4.7. Scilab needed the newer one. So scilab has:
DEPENDS+= pvm-3.4.2:../../parallel/pvm3
I'm about to update pvm to 3.4.3. I'd like to be able to do
DEPENDS+= pvm>=3.4.2:../../parallel/pvm3
but that has the potential to pickup the poorly numbered 3.4.7.
So should I just force the version to be 3.4.3 or is there another way of
listing this depends? I want "pvm(>=3.4.2 && !=3.4.7)"
Thanks
-Dan