Re: pkg/39090: pkg_admin from pkg_install-renovation fails to run with 'fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities'

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39090; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: Stuart Shelton <srcshelton%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, joerg%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/39090: pkg_admin from pkg_install-renovation fails to run
        with 'fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities'
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:51:41 +0200

 On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 03:39:14PM +0100, Stuart Shelton wrote:
 > I seem to be getting a pkg_admin binary with the correct "--help"  
 > output, but which won't accept the "fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities" option.  
 > In what cases can this code-path be possible?  I think you mentioned some 
 > reduced-functionality bootstrap mode where this would be left out?
 
 usage() doesn't conditionalize that part as it would just increase
 overhead.
 
 > I'm thinking that there must be some relatively simple explanation for  
 > this behaviour - so if we can find out what's going wrong (perhaps a  
 > hard-coded path or a test which unexpectedly fails on IRIX?) then it  
 > shouldn't be too much hassle to fix...
 
 Does your compiler have something like -save-temps?
 
 > (Or even, could this be due to the fact that the IRIX linker doesn't  
 > re-order objects passed on the command-line, so if audit.o is passed too 
 > early then it could (possibly?) be omitted entirely?)
 
 In that case it wouldn't link at all...
 
 Joerg