On 2022-12-13 19:34, Tatsuki Makino wrote:
Mel Pilgrim wrote on 2022/12/12 02:52:
But I need to also specify a version spec. However, if I do this:
RUN_DEPENDS= foo>=1.2:devel/foo
That only works if the default flavor is installed. If one of the
non-default flavors is installed, the Ports System doesn't find it
and tries to build the port. Similarly, pkg thinks I need to
install the default flavor.
The flavors aren't part of a framework like Python, so I don't
have a set of variables I can use to construct a universal pkg
name.
How do I add a version-limited dependency on a flavored port?
Is this simply about the following?
RUN_DEPENDS= foo>=1.2:devel/foo@nondefaultflavor
No, that makes the port depend on that specific flavor. I need to allow
any flavor to be installed.
The majority of the Python module is like this.
Yes and, per my original post, this is about depending on a port that
doesn't have such a framework around it.
For example, let's say I have a run dependency on postfix. It has six
flavors:
# pkg search -qL pkg-name mail/postfix$
postfix-sqlite-3.7.3_1,1
postfix-sasl-3.7.3_1,1
postfix-pgsql-3.7.3_1,1
postfix-3.7.3_1,1
postfix-ldap-3.7.3_1,1
postfix-mysql-3.7.3_1,1
As all six flavors will provide what is needed in this example
situation, there is no reason to limit which one the user can install.
If I have this:
RUN_DEPENDS= postfix>=3.7.3:mail/postfix
and the user has, say, postfix-sqlite-3.7.3_1,1 installed, then the
Ports System will think the dependency isn't met and try to build
mail/postfix. Pkg will similarly not see postfix-sqlite-3.7.3_1,1 as a
viable dependency due to the pkgname mismatch, try to install postfix,
and fail on the conflict.
However, if I have this:
RUN_DEPENDS= postfix:mail/postfix
and user has postfix-sqlite-3.7.3_1,1 installed, the Ports System will
see that as meeting the depedency because the lack of version spec
reduces the check to seeing if "postfix" is a file. Since all flavors
of postfix install that program, all of them meet it. But now I can't
specify a version restriction.
So, in this specific example, the question becomes:
What format does the RUN_DEPENDS line need to take to declare that any
flavor of postfix will meet the requirement so that the user can install
any flavor they want either via Ports or pkg?
I'm asking because, given this problem was created by the FLAVORS
implementation modifying pkgname, it must be just a matter of outdated
documentation that the Porter's Handbook doesn't say how to handle this
case.
I mean, no one would be mad enough to choose that approach and not
update the dependency solver(s) to handle it, right?
