[csw-maintainers] New graphviz packages in testing

[John Ellson]

On 07/23/2009 07:21 AM, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
> John Ellson wrote:
>    
>> There are new graphviz packages in testing:
>>
>>     graphviz        Graph Visualization Tools
>>     graphvizdevel      headers etc. for development
>>     graphvizdoc        documentation
>>     graphvizgraphs     example graphs
>>     graphvizgd         renderers using gd
>>     graphvizsharp      language binding for C#
>>     graphvizguile      language binding for guile
>>     graphvizperl       language binding for perl
>>     graphvizpython     language binding for python
>>     graphviztcl        language binding for tcl
>>
>> I can't actually install from testing.  I'm not sure why?
>>
>>       # pkg-get -s http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw/testing -U -u graphviz
>>       ...
>>       Updated description file
>>       INTERNAL ERROR: cannot get remote version for CSWexpat
>>       Perhaps your catalog is out of date
>>       INTERNAL ERROR: cannot get remote version for CSWpango
>>       Perhaps your catalog is out of date
>>       INTERNAL ERROR: cannot get remote version for CSWlibcairo
>>       Perhaps your catalog is out of date
>>       INTERNAL ERROR: cannot get remote version for CSWgts
>>       Perhaps your catalog is out of date
>>       INTERNAL ERROR: cannot get remote version for CSWlibxrender
>>       Perhaps your catalog is out of date
>>       INTERNAL ERROR: cannot get remote version for CSWgs
>>       Perhaps your catalog is out of date
>>       Error: dependancies for graphviz not up to date.
>>
>> Can anyone help with this?
>>      
> Have you tried using pkgutil for the same purpose? pkg-get once couldn't
> handle dependencies that spanned different repositories (graphviz from
> testing, deps from current in your case). I don't know whether that is
> still the case.
>
> If it is indeed the pkg-get issue we should mention this on the testing
> page [1] so that people know about it.
>
> Sebastian
>
> [1] http://mirror.opencsw.org/testing.html
>    


pkgutil worked for me.

I've fixed some packaging bugs in graphviz this morning, and now the 
installed binaries
seem to be working.

I then removed graphviz and retried the pkg-get method.   I still get 
the INTERNAL ERRORs, but
this time the installation eventually succeeded.

John