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List:       netbsd-tech-pkg
Subject:    Re: mk_sandbox, pbulk, and "/nonexistent"
From:       Benny Siegert <bsiegert () gmail ! com>
Date:       2020-06-16 20:27:35
Message-ID: alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2006162025380.2319 () meguro ! bentsukun ! ch
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Nikita Gillmann wrote:

> => Full dependency lua53-lpeg-[0-9]*: NOT found
> => Verifying /nonexistent for ../../devel/lua-lpeg
> `/nonexistent' is up to date.
> ERROR: [depends.mk] A package matching ``lua53-lpeg-[0-9]*'' should
> ERROR:     be installed, but one cannot be found.  Perhaps there is a
> ERROR:     stale work directory for ../../devel/lua-lpeg?

/nonexistent is some kind of fallback value when things go wrong in 
resolving a dependency. This means that it tried to resolve a dependency 
to lua53-lpeg in devel/lua-lpeg but was unable to do so. For instance, if 
the work directory over there contains files for, say, lua52-lpeg.

-- 
Benny

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