Fwd: pkg install missing dependencies when there are available

[David Demelier]

2013/3/11 Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:26:53AM +0100, David Demelier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm creating a repository using portmaster (with generated packages) and
> > pkg repo. It usually works well but sometimes my client machine fails to
> > add package because of missing dependencies that are available for
> > download. See this example :
> >
> > # pkg install -y kde
> > Updating repository catalogue
> > repo.txz                            100%  602KB 602.4KB/s 602.4KB/s
> > 00:00
> > The following packages will be installed:
> >
> >     Installing pkgconf: 0.8.9
> >     Installing libiconv: 1.14
> >     [... SNIP ...]
> >     Installing libffi: 3.0.12
> >
> > Every package are downloaded and then :
> >
> > Installing libX11-1.4.4,1... done
> > Installing python27-2.7.3_6... done
> > Installing pcre-8.32... done
> > Installing glib-2.34.3...missing dependency libffi-3.0.12
> >
> > And of course libffi is available, if I run pkg install libffi and
> restart
> > pkg install kde it will works, but I think there is a problem somewhere.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Demelier David
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> This is because portmaster is not a clean room to build packages resulting
> to
> some "unclean" dependency tracking, so you end up with a non clean
> repository.
>
> regards,
> Bapt
>

I would like to create a repository, but since I do not have ZFS (and will
probably never) I can't use poudriere, do you have a better alternative?


-- 
Demelier David