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Cc: Brent Clark <brentgclarklist@gmail.com>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Subject: Re: Struggling to remove package.
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On Friday 17 April 2009 20:34:14 Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Friday 17 April 2009 04:50:22 am Brent Clark wrote:
> > Hiya
> >
> > I seem to be struggling with removing a perl bsdpan package.
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> > # pkg_delete bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110
> >
> > But I get
> >
> > pkg_delete: package 'bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110' doesn't have a prefix

No @cwd in +CONTENTS. You may be able fix this by simply adding the correct 
installation prefix to the +CONTENTS file. But there may be other problems.

Please post the /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110/+CONTENTS file, so we can 
inspect it and possibly fix your issues.
-- 
Mel