Subject: Re: Some binary packages missing on ftp servers
To: None <pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 10/24/2006 15:15:39
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:11:24PM +0100, Raymond Meyer wrote:
> pkg_add: no pkg found for 'p5-perl-headers-3.0nb3', sorry.
> pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
>
> As you can imagine it's pretty annoying. Any reason why that package is
> missing??
From the Makefile:
# Since this package will be named, for instance, p5-perl-headers-1.5.1,
# binary packages on a FTP server (where only "1.5" is used as the directory
# name) will be ambiguous. A user of 1.5 may mistakenly install the
# perl-headers-1.5.1 pkg by use of the automatic "best version" logic.
NO_BIN_ON_FTP= FTP servers do not distinguish A.B.X revisions of versions