Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 16:50:56 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/x11-wm Makefile ports/x11-wm/metacity-setup ports/x11-wm/metacity-setup/files patch-src_callbacks.c patch-src_interface.c Message-ID: <1060357855.6729.17.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1060357522.720.6.camel@gyros> References: <200308071707.h77H7t52099972@repoman.freebsd.org> <1060357144.6729.4.camel@localhost> <1060357522.720.6.camel@gyros>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 16:45, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:39, Paul Richards wrote: > > Is there a recommended way of dealing with removed packages? > > That's what the MOVED file is supposed to do. In a way, it does work. > The best thing to do in _this_ situation is do portupgrade gnome2, then > pkgdb -F and remove metacity-setup. You'll note when you run the pkgdb > command, it will print the metacity-setup remove message from the MOVED > file. That doesn't work for me. portupgrade aborts the upgrade of gnome2 because the metacity-setup upgrade fails. If you then run pkgdb -F, it prints the MOVED message and offers to delete it, but pkg_delete fails because of the gnome2 dependency. Paul.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1060357855.6729.17.camel>