Re: Can't exclude packages with pkg_rolling-replace

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 06:53:56PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> writes:
>> 
>> > nice pkg_rolling-replace -suv -X py27-dns,p27-idna
>> >
>> > How do I exclude these so pkg_rolling-replace can update everything else?
>> 
>> Good question, and I suspect the answer is wrapped up in dealing with
>> multiversion packages in general.
>> 
>> pkg_rr tends to deal with PKGPATH, but really it needs to deal with a
>> tuple of PKGPATH and a specification of which version of something.
>> First, pkg_chk needs to be extended to deal with this.
>
> Does it set PKGNAME_REQD? That would work at least for Python.

No, not currently, internally because it has a PKGPATH that needs
rebuilding, and has lost any information about the set of PKGNAMEs that
have been build from that PKGPATH.