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Date:      Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:39:46 -0700
From:      Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Maxim.Sobolev@portaone.com, Kirill Ponomarew <krion@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib match.c
Message-ID:  <433B29C2.10504@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200509281304.29338.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200509270751.j8R7pjbj068445@repoman.freebsd.org> <433A04D4.9040602@portaone.com> <200509281304.29338.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:49 pm, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>>IMHO this is an ugly hack. Handling some packages differently purely
>>based on their name is simply a completely wrong way to go. The proper
>>way to implement this is to add additional PLIST flag which will tell
>>pkg_* tools to ignore absent origin.
> 
> 
> Umm, there's a bit of a chicken and egg in that if you could edit the package 
> in question to put a custom @noorigin in the packing list you could already 
> just put a bogus @origin in the packing list. I think the warning should just 
> be shut up across the board anyways as not all pkg's have valid origins.

Unless a good reason can be found for the check, I agree with John here.

Doug



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