Subject: everything is a dependency To: NetBSD tech-pkg <> From:
Marton Fabo <> List: tech-pkg Date: 01/12/2003 10:45:34 I
unfortunately deleted the original post, and the arechives are
currently not fuctional, so I can't re-check or quiote properly.
From what I understood, Jeremy's (?) problem was updating
potential  packages that are essential for the pkg mechanisms to
work - thus  uninstalling them first would effectively prevent
installing the new   Isn't pkgviews an option for this
situation? In case such a package  would need to be updated that
is depended upon by something that can't  temporarily
uninstalled (e.g. pkgsrc itself), the package could be
extracted into the depot location, next to the old version,
using the  old pkg-related tools. Then the currently used
pkgview could be simply  cloned, and only the newly installed
package's links updated in the  cloned copy. This would allow
e.g. testing if the newly installed  package works correctly,
and if not, the whole operation simply reverted  t