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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:29:17 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com
Cc:        i.vaudrey@cableinet.co.uk, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ranlib
Message-ID:  <199711040629.WAA15843@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <4372.878607740@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)

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 * > I can reproduce the problem with at least one existing port, libmalloc-1.18,
 * > I haven't tried any others but if I'm right about the cause it'll happen
 * > with any port that has an @exec ranlib line in the PLIST.
 * 
 * I'll take a look at it.  Like I said, @exec lines aren't even supposed
 * to be _run_ by pkg_delete so this would be a very peculiar situation
 * of so.

No, he's right.  "@exec ranlib" is run by pkg_add, and that changes
the md5 checksum, which causes pkg_delete to choke.

Satoshi



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