--On Mittwoch, Oktober 01, 2003 13:28:14 -0400 Dennis McRitchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to build pine 4.58 from the OpenPKG "current" repository. It tells me that it needs 2 dependencies I don't have:
1) openpkg >= 20030909
All my other installed packages are from the 1.3 release, and I'm only getting pine from the "current" repository because it's not available in the 1.3 release. So is this a real dependency, or will pine build and install fine if I have openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1 installed? (If it is the latter, I will just edit the spec file.)
The recommended way is to use also the current openpkg package if you plan to use packages out of the current tree. But you could easily try to backport a package by replacing the date by the relase 1.3.0. Be warned, your mileage will vary :-))
2) MTA
I assume that this is referring to a Mail Transport Agent. If so, I know pine needs an MTA to run; but this is not a dependency in the usual sense of the word. There is no package called MTA, and it is up to the sysadmin and/or user to pick an MTA (sendmail or some other SMTP agent) to use.
So why is this listed here? I understand the value of a reminder, but shouldn't there be a way to get pine to build without having to edit the spec file?
MTA is a virtual package and will be provided by ssmtp, postfix or sendmail. More about virtual packages are described under http://www.openpkg.org/faq.html#package-type
cheerio Steve
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