Fwd: pkg install missing dependencies when there are available

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:26:53AM +0100, David Demelier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm creating a repository using portmaster (with generated packages) and
> pkg repo. It usually works well but sometimes my client machine fails to
> add package because of missing dependencies that are available for
> download. See this example :
> 
> # pkg install -y kde
> Updating repository catalogue
> repo.txz                            100%  602KB 602.4KB/s 602.4KB/s
> 00:00
> The following packages will be installed:
> 
>     Installing pkgconf: 0.8.9
>     Installing libiconv: 1.14
>     [... SNIP ...]
>     Installing libffi: 3.0.12
> 
> Every package are downloaded and then :
> 
> Installing libX11-1.4.4,1... done
> Installing python27-2.7.3_6... done
> Installing pcre-8.32... done
> Installing glib-2.34.3...missing dependency libffi-3.0.12
> 
> And of course libffi is available, if I run pkg install libffi and restart
> pkg install kde it will works, but I think there is a problem somewhere.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Demelier David
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This is because portmaster is not a clean room to build packages resulting to
some "unclean" dependency tracking, so you end up with a non clean repository.

regards,
Bapt
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