On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 13:25 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005, David M. Fetter wrote:
> >Something seems wrong with how Expect and Tcl interacts in regards to
> >dependencies.  The problem occurs if you have a prior version of Tcl and
> >Expect installed, then go to upgrade to any other version.  What happens
> ...
> >Line #60, which is the BuildPreReq, has the same line.  I'm not sure if
> >this should be changed though.  I'm thinking that only the PreReq should
> >be changed while the BuildPreReq stays with the specific version as that
> >seems that it would logically function as is needed and not break
> >updating from an older version to newer as well.  Does this logic seem
> >proper to you guys?
> 
> This is a long-standing issue.  My solution has been to massage the output
> of ``openpkg build'' to add ``--nodeps'' to the installation commands for
> tcl and expect before running the generated script.

Is this "massaging" part of the build tools or something you are stating
you do manually?

> 
> Bill
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