Re: Some binary packages missing on ftp servers

[Raymond Meyer <raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:34:54 -0500 (CDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> wrote:

> > It's not the first time that I try to install a packages and it fails, 
> > because a dependant packages is missing on ftp server.
> > 
> > For example packages-2006Q2/NetBSD-3.0/i386
> > 
> > pkg_add: no pkg found for 'p5-perl-headers-3.0nb3', sorry.
> > pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
> > 
> > As you can imagine it's pretty annoying. Any reason why that package is
> > missing??
> 
> 
> The package Makefile has:
> 
> # Since this package will be named, for instance, p5-perl-headers-1.5.1,
> # binary packages on a FTP server (where only "1.5" is used as the directory
> # name) will be ambiguous.  A user of 1.5 may mistakenly install the
> # perl-headers-1.5.1 pkg by use of the automatic "best version" logic.
> 
> NO_BIN_ON_FTP=          FTP servers do not distinguish A.B.X revisions of
> versions
> 
> 
> Yes, this would be annoying. What packages did you attempt to install? And 
> what other dependencies are missing.
> 
> I don't know this package but I do know we should provide all needed 
> dependencies for any packages we provide. We can't assume everyone can 
> build packages and we should make it easy to install packages.

I tried installing 'amarok' and 'gxine', both failed since p5-perl-headers
packages could not be found