From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 14:24:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A641065673 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:24:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard.delaurell@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFD78FC20 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:24:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from richard.delaurell@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so49743qwb.7 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:24:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=S02y4upRZALgVJRT5YC/sBczsAqXjVIOeqn30GSEm8w=; b=cAJdFchMHYUsDx+P8OkbQgkq2obsd7A6oo03ycTGeVvJfUJhOZTdNRw0DzD+US5Rzm aRRrS4qx6AAksFwCympJ/9JzBYolik+Sua0XOEc5pZ1m6bVuL8KMstjhO6hlGuL2Hp9W OnsAQQ8u9EYe2FVML/q/5dGcKIQBzrTEI0/IQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=NAsgYK7Guv7jpjuECFyPeFuNc4KaXgtwXJQAnyQym+xL4sAzuXe7kOMhmn4vwjPl5A dicbLxT0XNC6eSIYMo7tLh7KeTI6Y2lTQiPIdLP4OIpRsn+iLdTg1bIOAgsjm2TigRsC Cn6bA1uZjLYaFEp2kdcKU1ZazNTGEbPY79xh4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.94.137 with SMTP id z9mr3374821vcm.52.1238595858805; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:24:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090401151617.463088b1.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4324dbec0904010541s788b84f6q7ba1a8699394490b@mail.gmail.com> <20090401151617.463088b1.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:24:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4324dbec0904010724x68999345o69ba52c3b6397ef8@mail.gmail.com> From: Richard DeLaurell To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: py24-gobject won't deinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:24:20 -0000 I reveal my ignorance: why does this work to delete the package # pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/py24-gobject* while 'pkg_delete py24-gobject*' did not? Would the latter have done the trick if issued from the /var/db/pkg directory itself? In any event your solution does seem to have worked. Thank you for helping. Have a good day-- Richard > > > and then install the updated version. As long as the update doesn't > break any library version numbering, and the functionalities from the > previous versions are still intact, there won't be a problem. > > Finally, if you're using portupgrade, make sure to correct the > dependencies: > > # pkgdb -aF > > But note that if this procedure fails, you will usually have to deinstall > the depending software and then start allover again, this will lead you > finally to updated programs, as well as an updated py25-gobject (as a > dependency). > > > -- > Polytropon > From Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... >