Re: pkg/60423

Rob Whitlock <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jul 2026 14:34:38 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Jul 7, 2026, at 1:05 PM, sennler via gnats <[email protected]> =
wrote:
>=20
> The following reply was made to PR pkg/60423; it has been noted by =
GNATS.
>=20
> From: sennler <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:=20
> Subject: Re: pkg/60423
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 13:04:07 -0600
>=20
> $ cd pkgsrc
> $ bmake help
> usage: bmake help topic=3D<topic>
>          ...
>          For convenience, all-uppercase topics such as variable
>          names may also be given in all-lowercase.
> $
>=20
> bmake performs a case-insensitive search, so running "grep -i" finds
> the instance of "Supersedes" that a case-sensitive grep couldn't, =
unless
> I'm missing something else?
>=20
> $ grep -i SUPERSEDES mk/defaults/mk.conf
> # Supersedes the PKG_SUFX option and keeps the name consistent.
> $

That makes sense. It seems to be an unavoidable side effect of this
intentional design decision, so I suppose this PR may be closed.

Thanks=