On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:34:00AM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote: > On the other hand, I don't think sprinkling -f on the problem is the > right fix either. It is not the right fix. From the recent feedback in #pkgsrc, I am starting to wonder if the change was tested at all, given the rather obvious breakage it creates. > The osabi dummy package itself seems to me like a rather kludgy solution > to a subset of a difficult problem. From the perspective of updating > it causes more problems than it solves. Besides, when you try to install > a package build for a different OS release you already get a warning > from the tools. osabi itself is OK. I am starting to wonder if the forced dependency is needed at all -- at least pkg_rr should handle it correctly without that. Joerg