Re: htop installation from package (using pkgin) broken on NetBSD 6.0

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 06:51:42PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 07:35:18PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> > > Can you sum up what the problem on the build hosts(s) would be ?
> > > I can't parse the pkg_* outputs you posted.
> > 
> > There is one package (ncurses) both in i386 and amd64 repo having
> > 
> > REQUIRES=/usr/lib/lib{menu,form}.so.5
> > 
> > entry which is used by pkgin and nih and pkgin warns about
> > missing libraries during installation.
> > Neither libmenu.so.5 and libform.so.5
> > are a part of NetBSD-6 base.
> > 
> > According to OS_VERSION all packages were rebuild using 6.0.
> > I guess these two libraries appeared in build tree due to update from
> > 5.{0,1} to 6.0.
> 
> yes, /usr/lib/lib{menu,form}.so.5 is there, but /usr/lib/lib{menu,form}.so.6
> is also there. Why did it pick up .so.5 over .so.6 ?
> 
> > 
> > TODO: fix build tree (at least remove these libs or recreate it from 
> > scratch),
> > rebuild ncurses and upload
> > ncurses package and updated pkg_summary.*
> 
> Before doing so, I'd like to know why it didn't pick the up to date library.
> There may be other similar cases, and rebuilding the whole set of packages
> takes weeks (I started a build from scratch 8 days ago because of X11 issues,
> and it's only at
> [4882/12012] Starting build of  p5-IO-Handle-Util-0.01nb2
> )

I finally cleaned up the old libraries from the chroot, and checked
the already-built packages. Strangely, only ncurses did pick
the wrong library ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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