tech-pkg archive        Date:        Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:02:44
-0500     From:        Greg Troxel <>     Message-ID:  <>    |
So before trying all of this, you should have a situation where
pkg_chk   | reports that there are no mismatched packages.  If
only that were possible - I've been meaning to ask about this
for ages. pkg_chk uses its own (cut down) Makefile parser to
work out what versions of packages are in pkgsrc (rather than
running make to ask for the value, which is much much much much
slower of course) - most of the time it works fine, but we are
getting more and more packages where the Makefile logic to
determine the correct version number is just beyond pkg_chk's
ability.  For me, for a long time, there have been 4 (of the
packages I build, which has never been more thyan about 1/2 of
what is available), and they were all small ones, so just
rebuilding them, just in case, which is what I have been doing,
was harmless (stuff like xmltoman which builds in < a minute,
and compat14 which is about as