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Date:      Wed, 20 May 2009 16:15:08 -0700
From:      Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Panagiotis Christias <p.christias@noc.ntua.gr>
Cc:        Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.ORG>, d@delphij.net, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: port net/openldap24-sasl-client fails to register as dependency
Message-ID:  <4A148EFC.9090103@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <4A148E2D.1040001@noc.ntua.gr>
References:  <4A13FF70.9040008@noc.ntua.gr> <4A147113.3010902@delphij.net> <4A148E2D.1040001@noc.ntua.gr>

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Panagiotis Christias wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> (I am adding freebsd-ports@ to the thread as you suggested)
> 
> 
> Xin LI wrote:
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>> Hi, Panagiotis,
>>
>> Panagiotis Christias wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I came across another dependency bug. It looks like packages that depend
>>> on net/openldap24-client (e.g. mail/sendmail-ldap, mail/dovecot with
>>> WITH_LDAP=true etc) fail to register the openldap dependency in systems
>>> that have net/openldap24-sasl-client port installed.
>>
>> I am aware of this problem but I don't have a good solution for it (at
>> hand), this is an infrastructural issue with the ports dependency
>> tracking - if two ports installs exactly the same files, there is no way
>> to distinguish between the two without forcing to install one even if a
>> conflicting one is already installed.
> 
> Hm.. messy. How does lang/perl5.[6,8,10] handle such problems?

Install an entry into /etc/make.conf, I think it's Ok for perl (since
there are a lot of ports depends on it) but not for OpenLDAP...

Cheers,
- --
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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