package dependencies

Bob Leigh bobleigh at twomeeps.com
Sat Dec 2 12:41:53 PST 2006


I wrote:

> In the base package you want, look for a file named +CONTENTS -- that's
> the text file that describes the package's contents, dependencies, and
> what happens when it gets installed.  If I remember correctly, lines that
> begin with '@newdepend' specify what packages the current package
> depends on.

Oops.  On my OpenBSD 3.7 system, the manual page pkg_create(1) says
dependency lines now begin with '@depend'.  Sorry, it's been a while
since I poked around inside packages, and the syntax may have changed!

-- 
Bob Leigh	bobleigh at twomeeps.com


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