Subject: Re: Package make not determining correct dependancies/RRS text
To: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.DynDNS.ORG>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/05/1999 21:50:05
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Greg Earle wrote:
> The "make" noticed that there was a misc/kdeutils there, and proceeded to
> cd to ../../misc/kdeutils and try to do a "make" in there.
>
> But it never noticed or complained that the kdeutils in there was 1.1.1, not
> the 1.1.2 that the parent kde-1.1.2 needed. It just started unbundling/etc.
> It seems like it was happy that the package was there, and didn't check to
> see if it was the right version before proceeding ...
pkgsrc assumes you keep its entire tree in sync - if you want to
update to the current pkgsrc you should update the entire tree.
Its quite possible you'll also hit problems due to a newer
package requiring updated pkgsrc/mk/*.mk files...