Re: plus48.html - few glitches, mostly to do with "prevented"

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 09:45:40PM +1200, Richard Toohey wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> Reading the 4.8 list and I don't understand exactly what a lot of these are
> trying to say ... maybe a search-and-replace gone wrong?
> 
> Prevented pkg_add(1) update to silently ignore a pkgpath problem.

No, that one is very technical, so if you haven't run into the problem
and know what's going on it's not going to make sense.

Most specifically, pkg_add finds candidates by looking at stem-* then
checking that the pkgpath matches. It also needs some specific mechanism to
silently ignore "older" packages and stuff that's already fully uptodate.
The tests were a bit bogus, and not finding a matching package with correct
pkgpath was lumped with "oh, older package found, no update needed" where
it should say "hey, we found a correct stem-*, but no matching @pkgpath
candidate, we should report that".