Re: pkg_tarup inclusion in pkg_create

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 03:58:55PM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
 > > Perhaps this is hard - but why can't 'make replace' simply add a build
 > > dependency on pkg_tarup?  It seems there are already dependencies on
 > > digest and pkg_install.
 > 
 > Because you don't know if "make replace" will be used once you do "make
 > extract".  Consider "make install" followed by "make replace".  All
 > dependencies have already been built by "make install", and running
 > "make replace" won't trigger the installation of pkg_tarup.

Sometimes at least it does. Or did. The only way I discovered that
pkg_tarup existed (years and years ago) was that it installed itself
when I first tried "make replace".

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost