[bug-notifications] [pkgutil 0004273]: RFE: Pull in dependencies even when installing a local file

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The following issue requires your FEEDBACK. 
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http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4273 
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Reported By:                skayser
Assigned To:                bonivart
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Project:                    pkgutil
Issue ID:                   4273
Category:                   regular use
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     feedback
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Date Submitted:             2010-02-14 19:59 CET
Last Modified:              2010-02-23 15:43 CET
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Summary:                    RFE: Pull in dependencies even when installing a
local file
Description: 
I have just used pkgutil 1.9.1 to install my experimental postfix package.
I couldn't use -t as the experimental repository is currently broken, so I
downloaded it manually and invoked pkgutil with -i on the local file. This
only installs the package and doesn't seem to inspect the dependencies
contained in the package.

Could you add dependency handling for local file installs to be more
consistent with the default operation mode of pkgutil (which is to pull in
deps)? If someone doesn't want this to happen they should be able to say -N
to suppress this.

As a workaround I thought about pulling in the dependencies via "pkgutil
-i postfix -x CSWpostfix", which would work in general, but I would only
get the dependencies of the version from current/ (and the dependencies of
the experimental package have changed compared to the ones from current). I
know this wouldn't be required if experimental wasn't broken, but the
dependency handling would still be a helpful addition to pkgutil.
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 (0007502) bonivart (manager) - 2010-02-23 15:43
 http://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4273#c7502 
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I think the idea (from Trygve) was that when you're building packages you
often create a build that you want to install, you take care of the
dependencies the first time (by installing from current e.g.) and then you
just need to install the local package over and over again until you're
satisfied with it.

I'll look into it though.