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Date:      Tue, 20 May 2014 10:05:46 -0400
From:      Richard Kuhns <rjk@wintek.com>
To:        Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>, Pete Carah <pete@altadena.net>
Cc:        "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Net-SNMP conflict
Message-ID:  <537B613A.7010604@wintek.com>
In-Reply-To: <2d991d03fb98e2304c9abf70bcd14f78@mail.feld.me>
References:  <537B0FCB.7020608@altadena.net> <2d991d03fb98e2304c9abf70bcd14f78@mail.feld.me>

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Mark Felder wrote:
> On 2014-05-20 03:18, Pete Carah wrote:
>> PLEASE don't automatically install pkg during the build of ANY other
>> package; if this happens in the middle of a portupgrade -a on a system
>> without pkgng, the result is not pretty; all packages built after
>> net-snmp have a duplicated origin, among other things.  I hope I can
>> recover the system since it is supposed to be a production server.
>>
>> Yes, I realize I'll have to convert.  However, this forced install
>> doesn't convert the database so the pkg database and /var/db/pkg end up
>> inconsistent, and I can't tell what is really installed on all of the
>> packages that show a duplicated origin.
>>
>
> ports-mgmt/pkg should not be a dependency of any port. Are you saying
> this happened? Can you identify which port?
> _______________________________________________


The Makefile for net-mgmt/net-snmp contains this snippet:

# pkg-1.2 cannot handle this dependency well.
.if !defined(WITH_PKGNG)
LIB_DEPENDS=    libpkg.so:${PORTSDIR}/ports-mgmt/pkg
.endif


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