ports/54424: portupgrade ignores ALT_PKGDEP

[Bharat Mediratta]

>Number:         54424
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       portupgrade ignores ALT_PKGDEP
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 12 22:00:29 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bharat Mediratta
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
menalto.com
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD harmony.menalto.com 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #3: Wed Apr 16 00:50:18 PDT 2003 bharat at harmony.menalto.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HARMONY i386


	

	portupgrade-20030427

>Description:
	
	pkgtools.conf contains a section called ALT_PKGDEP that allows you to 
	substitute one package dependency for another.  In my particular case,
	I want to install the "security/acid" port without having it install
	"databases/adodb", which is listed in the RUN_DEPENDS for the acid
	Makefile.

	In the ALT_PKGDEP section of pkgtools.conf I've tried the following
	settings:
	1.	'databases/adodb' => :delete,
	2.	'databases/adodb' => :skip,
	3.	'adodb' => :delete,
	4.	'adodb' => :skip,

	but none of them work.  A quick grep through the /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby
	code shows that most of the other hashes defined in pkgtools.conf are
	referenced in the code, but ALT_PKGDEP isn't.  It looks like this feature
	was never implemented.  


>How-To-Repeat:
	
	Edit pkgtools.conf and modify ALT_PKGDEP to be:
		  ALT_PKGDEP = { 
		    'databases/adodb' => :delete, 
		  } 

	then do "portinstall acid" and see that it still tries to install adodb.

>Fix:
	Implement this function, or document the fact that it doesn't work in pkgtools.conf
	so that folks don't waste their time trying to get it working!
	


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