sysutils/bpm fails to notice that portupgrade is already installed

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Fri Aug 27 11:39:27 PDT 2004


Adam Weinberger wrote:

> So is this a local problem for Dan, do you think, or would it be in
> everyone's best interest to change bpm's portupgrade dependency?

I think it is in everyone's best interest to have a common view of the 
problem, so just changing the dependency in sysutils/bpm won't changee 
much.

Either we change *all* dependencies to executables in 
/usr/local/{sbin,bin}, or we set the PATH to include 
${LOCALBASE}/{sbin,bin} in bsd.port.mk, or we require users to have 
/usr/local/{sbin,bin} in the PATH.

As far as I am concerned I would go for solution #2, and I think 
requiring users to have /usr/local/{sbin,bin} in the PATH (which is the 
default in /usr/share/skel/dot.profile) as a workaround until we have 
things fixed seems OK to me.

-Oliver



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