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[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 17:15:05 -0500, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>  
wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 02:38:07PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:12:01 -0500, Mikhail Teterin
>> <Mikhail.Teterin at murex.com> wrote:
>>
>> >>package (pkg_add), wouldn't you get error when run apps for can't find
>> >>to ??
>> >>link foobar.so.5 when you have foobar.so.4? I don't use package, but  
>> ??
>> >>wouldn't package (without library version in Makefile) failed to check
>> >>for
>> >>need foobar.so.5 and go ahead install it because there was no library
>> >>version info? With the library version would check and give the error
>> >>earlier.
>> >
>> >No... See bsd.port.mk's cvs log:
>> >
>> >revision 1.424
>> >date: 2002/09/19 00:16:39;  author: kris;  state: Exp;  lines: +72 -39
>> >[...]
>> >* [1] Registering real dependencies: dependency registration looks at  
>> the
>> >  currently-installed version of the dependency and registers that
>> >version,
>> >  instead of registering the version in ports which may be newer than
>> >  what is installed.
>> >[...]
>> >
>> >(I recall pushing for this and submitting my own version of this  
>> change,
>> >but
>> >sobomax was part of portmgr and I was not...)
>>
>> Either above still doesn't explain clear or I don't understand it clear.
>> Register version of what?  PORTVERSION or library? If it's library, then
>
> The above means that the foo package dependency in /var/db/pkg/ will
> be registered against whatever foo-x.y package you have installed, not
> foo-z.w which is currently in the ports tree, which the user may not
> have installed yet.  It doesn't mean anything more than that.

Thanks, got it.

Cheers,
Mezz

> Kris


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