NetBSD Problem Report #60698

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Date: Tue,  8 Sep 2026 18:09:23 +0000 (UTC)
From: yuri.honegger@icloud.com
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To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: pkg_add -f complains on missing dependencies
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>Number:         60698
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       pkg_add -f complains on missing dependencies
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 08 18:10:00 +0000 2026
>Originator:     Yuri Honegger
>Release:        head 8.9.2026
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD armv5 11.99.8 NetBSD 11.99.8 (GENERIC_V5) #242: Tue Sep  8 17:03:49 CEST 2026  yuri@yuriLaptop-2.local:netbsd/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/obj/GENERIC_V5 evbarm
>Description:
According to the manpage for pkg_add:

     -f      Force installation to proceed even if prerequisite packages are
             not installed or the install script fails.  Although pkg_add will
             still try to find and auto-install missing prerequisite packages,
             a failure to find one will not be fatal.  This flag also over-
             rides the fatal error when the operating system or architecture
             the package was built on differ from that of the host.

However, when I run pkg_add -f /boot/u-boot-beagleboneblack-2022.04nb1.tgz, I get:

pkg_add: u-boot-beagleboneblack-2022.04nb1: warning: was built for a different platform:
pkg_add: Darwin/aarch64 24.6.0 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/earmv5 11.99.8 (this host)
pkg_add: no pkg found for 'openssl>=3', sorry.
pkg_add: Can't install dependency openssl>=3, continuing
pkg_add: Missing dependency openssl>=3 ignored
pkg_add: u-boot-beagleboneblack-2022.04nb1: expected dependency openssl>=3 still missing
pkg_add: 1 package addition failed

I'd expect this to work. However, as seen above, pkg_add -f still complains about missing dependencies.
>How-To-Repeat:
On a system without openssl installed:

1. get a copy of the sysutils/u-boot-beagleboneblack package
2. pkg_add -f u-boot-beagleboneblack-2022.04nb1.tgz
>Fix:

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