Subject: Re: Upgrading emulators/suse* packages with pkg_chk?
To: Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/11/2006 14:09:02
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:42:06PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am in the process of updating an existing pkgsrc-2005Q3 installation 
> from a pkgsrc-2006Q1 bulk build. pkg_chk creates a pkgchk.conf file with
> 
> [...]
> emulators/suse91_base
> emulators/suse91_compat
> emulators/suse91_expat
> emulators/suse91_fontconfig
> emulators/suse91_freetype2
> emulators/suse91_gtk
> emulators/suse91_gtk2
> emulators/suse91_libjpeg
> emulators/suse91_libpng
> emulators/suse91_libtiff
> emulators/suse91_locale
> emulators/suse91_openmotif
> emulators/suse91_x11
> emulators/suse_devel
> [...]
> 
> - how would I upgrade to the suse v10 packages which changed the naming 
> pattern? Does it suffice to just exchange equivalent packages in 
> pkgchk.conf, or would that break?

Untested: remove all suse91_* packages from pkgchk.conf, and add
SUSE_PREFER=10.0 to /etc/mk.conf.  This way, packages needing linux
libraries will depend on the suse10_* versions and drag them in.  

	Geert