Re: 2024Q2: 6277 packages to install on later "pkgin upgrade" run

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Van Ly <van.ly%sdf.org@localhost> writes:

> I have already run for 2024Q2 the following, successfully.
>
>  $ pkgin update
>  $ pkgin upgrade
>
> I have tried to build from pkgsrc/www/midori and abandoned that when it
> wanted to build too many dependencies.
>
> Running "pkgin upgrade" as root again unexpectedly wants to install
> 6277 packages. What can I do to minimize that number of packages?

Arguably it's a bug if you didn't change config and the 2nd upgrade does
anything.

> I was looking to confirm I have the latest librsvg for building
> emacs 29.4, I see
>
>  1 # pkgin se librsvg
>  2 pkgin se librsvg
>  3 librsvg-2.58.0nb1 <  SVG library for GNOME
>  4 librsvg-2.56.3nb4 <  SVG library for GNOME
>  5 librsvg-2.40.21nb18 < SVG library for GNOME (2.40.xx branch, C only)
>  6 librsvg-2.40.21nb16 = SVG library for GNOME (2.40.xx branch, C only)
>  7 ruby31-rsvg2-4.2.2nb1  Ruby binding of librsvg
>  8 ruby31-rsvg2-4.2.0nb4  Ruby binding of librsvg
>  9 ruby32-rsvg2-4.2.2nb1  Ruby binding of librsvg
> 10 ruby32-rsvg2-4.2.1   Ruby binding of librsvg
> 11 ruby32-rsvg2-4.2.0nb4  Ruby binding of librsvg
> 12 ruby33-rsvg2-4.2.2nb1  Ruby binding of librsvg
> 13 ruby33-rsvg2-4.2.1   Ruby binding of librsvg

This is huge trouble.

> 2 https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$arch/10.0_2024Q2/All
> 3 #https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$arch/10.0_2024Q1/All
> 4 #https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$arch/10.0_2023Q4/All
> 5 #https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$arch/10.0/All

This is why.  IMHO you may use only ONE repository.  If you have
multiple, they must all be built from the same consistent source tree
with the same base OS.

I realize you may want to still have some older program, but that will
depend on older versions of other things, and in general (really, except
in very special cases), that will not work.

Your choices are:

  fix the packag in up-to-date pkgsrc (best but hard)

  checkout the older source and bootstrap with --prefix=/usr/pkg-20234
  and build it.