Re: pkg/56651: net/tigervnc needs x11/xauth as a dependency

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 01:40:01 +0000 (UTC)
"David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost> wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR pkg/56651; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
> To: Gnats Bugs <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: pkg/56651: net/tigervnc needs x11/xauth as a dependency
> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 20:19:31 -0500
> 
>  > For tigervnc, package x11/xauth needs to be added as a dependency:
>  > 
>  > vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.
>  
>  If I understand you correctly, you have a base X environment installed
>  that does include xinit but doesn't include xauth? That seems a little
>  odd to me. (The script in question verifies that it can find uname,
>  xauth, and then xinit in that order.)
>  
>  Dave
>  

This issue occurs on Solaris, there is no base X11. Pkgsrc is using
modular Xorg packages as dependencies - meaning I didn't install Xorg
to begin with, I did "bmake package" in net/tigervnc and let pkgsrc
figure out all required dependencies. So x11/xauth was missing and
looks like it needs to be added as an explicit dependency.