On Fri 30 Oct 2009 at 01:57AM, Bob Doolittle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The build 126 pkg(5) man page says about 'incorporate' depend actions:
> > If the value is 'incorporate', then the dependency is required,
> > but in addition, the version of the dependent package is
> > constrained. See 'Constraints and Freezing' below.
>
> Of course the "Constraints and Freezing" section says "TBD" :)
>
> However, I find that if I create a package with just "incorporate"
> depend actions and install it, the packages specified in the depend
> actions are not also installed.
>
> Is this a bug in the man page or in pkg?
I believe the man page is wrong, please file a bug. For example,
'entire' incorporates every package in what used to be called "the WOS"
but doesn't require them to be installed.
Incoporations are typically used to tie packages together such that
they form a versioned "surface"-- as Liane has smartly put it-- an
incorporation should define what you test as a unit.
-dp
--
Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/dp
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