Re: pkg/46570: infelicities in pkglint

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46570; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/46570: infelicities in pkglint
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:37:50 +0000

 On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 09:15:04PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
  >>  Well, packages certainly need to be able to specify TOOLS_DEPENDS;
  >>  that's practically the whole point of TOOLS_DEPENDS.
  >>  
  >>  Perhaps it should allow += but not =, though.
  >  
  > I guess you get the behaviour you want by changing
  > pkgtools/files/makevars.map:
  >  TOOLS_DEPENDS.*         InternalList of DependencyWithPath [$system]
  >  to
  >  TOOLS_DEPENDS.*         InternalList of DependencyWithPath [$package_list]
 
 Yes, that silences it. Should I commit?
 
  >  >  I've noticed (I think) that sometimes pkglint will report that "only
  >  >  [] is allowed" but it actually accepts append, but I can't point to
  >  >  any examples.
  >  
  >  That shouldn't happen any longer with 4.123. If the allowed flags were
  >  "au" which means append and use, then the warning was printing empty
  >  brackets.
 
 Good :-)
 
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 David A. Holland
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