Subject: Re: problem with pkg_add and depoted packages
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Joachim Kuebart <kuebart@mathematik.uni-ulm.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/13/2005 11:20:53
Hi,

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:41:23AM +0100,  wrote:
> I'm experiencing a problem with pkg_add when adding depoted packages: if
> the package is to be linked into the "" view, the command
> 
> 	pkg_add -w "" digest-20021220
> 
> yields a usage message from pkg_view. This is due to the fact that pkg_view
> gets called with an argument of "-w " (note the space) by pkg_add. So I
> applied this patch:
>
> [...]
> 
> Now, the problem that remains is that fexec_skipempty() will delete the
> empty option argument to -w, and pkg_view still complains with a usage
> message.

Just to let you know, I just filed bin/29687 which solves both problems for
me.

Cheers,

cu Jo

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