ports-mgmt/pkg

Montgomery-Smith, Stephen stephen at missouri.edu
Wed Aug 6 16:21:29 UTC 2014


On 08/05/2014 12:23 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
> I tried version pkg-1.3.4 yesterday.  When I used pkg install to install
> a preexisting package which had lots of dependencies, I would get lines
> like this:
> 
> package-y: 100%
> package-y: 100%
> package-y: 100%
> 
> This might be when installing package-x.  That is, a dependency might be
> listed up to three times, and in some cases even the base package would
> never get listed.  I was assuming that the code that printed which
> package was being installed was sometimes getting it wrong.  In one
> case, when I was installing texlive-full, the package t1lib was listed
> twice, but the second time it installed it went so slowly that it must
> have been installing texlive-texmf.
> 
> Obviously this is only a cosmetic problem.  But I am curious as to
> whether people are aware of this issue.

This bug is still present in pkg-1.3.5.1.  However it arises when I used
pkg add - not when using pkg install.  Sorry for my mistake.



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