Subject: Re: Package update disaster
To: None <fredb@NetBSD.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/09/2004 15:59:31
On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> wildcard can't be known.  I recall suggesting, that we collect the
> "@needed" shared libraries in the "+CONTENTS" file, but I don't
> remember what became of that.  It would required a trivial
> modification to the "check-shlibs" target.  With that, "pkg_add" would
> have all the information needed to install the correct dependency, or
> complain if it weren't available.

Yes, let us do that now!

 Jeremy C. Reed

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