Fwd: pkg install missing dependencies when there are available

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:49:55AM +0100, David Demelier wrote:
> 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

Poudriere trunk (at your own risks :)) or tinderbox

regards,
Bapt
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