On Thu, Mar 03, 2005, David M. Fetter wrote:
>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?
I have a script that I run on the output which uses shtool to
make fixes to the script. Basically it is a superset of this:
#!/bin/sh
${l_prefix}/lib/openpkg/shtool subst \
-e '/^sudo.*expect/s/-Uvh/--nodeps -Uvh/' \
-e '/^sudo.*tcl/s/-Uvh/--nodeps -Uvh/' \
....
"$@"
exit;
Bill
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