ports-mgmt/pkg

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 04:20:18PM +0000, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
> On 08/05/2014 12:23 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
> > I tried version pkg-1.3.4 yesterday.  When I used pkg install to install
> > a preexisting package which had lots of dependencies, I would get lines
> > like this:
> > 
> > package-y: 100%
> > package-y: 100%
> > package-y: 100%
> > 
> > This might be when installing package-x.  That is, a dependency might be
> > listed up to three times, and in some cases even the base package would
> > never get listed.  I was assuming that the code that printed which
> > package was being installed was sometimes getting it wrong.  In one
> > case, when I was installing texlive-full, the package t1lib was listed
> > twice, but the second time it installed it went so slowly that it must
> > have been installing texlive-texmf.
> > 
> > Obviously this is only a cosmetic problem.  But I am curious as to
> > whether people are aware of this issue.
> 
> This bug is still present in pkg-1.3.5.1.  However it arises when I used
> pkg add - not when using pkg install.  Sorry for my mistake.

Yes pkg add it still full of old hacks from ancient time :) we keep it as a
compatibility for the ports tree until we can do better.

regards,
Bapt
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