On 4/7/10 5:10 AM, Julio Merino wrote:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Greg Troxel<gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:that makes sense. pkgsrc.txt contains: ALTERNATIVES FIXME: There is no documentation on the alternatives framework.Meh, my fault.Is there a description someplace?Not really, other than the pkgtools/pkg_alternatives package and its manual pages.
While you're looking.... :)Can you look at pr 42197 that I submitted, with a refactoring of pkg_alternatives so that it doesn't depend on a latin-1 character?
Also I reworked many parts to use awk, as suggested by others in this discussion:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2008/07/20/msg007671.htmlThere is a patch in the PR, and I've been using it successfully on OS X, NetBSD, AIX and Linux.
Louis