Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:01:56 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: annoying problems after upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <4632F164.6010900@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <200704280655.l3S6tGs7025719@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200704280655.l3S6tGs7025719@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Scott Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:38:31 -0400 quoth Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>: > Please note that I posted the first two items merely to inform the > readership of the existence of the problems. I only hoped for assistance > on the third problem. > Now, given that you are among the core ports team members, perhaps > you would enlighten me as to which indicators pkg_add uses and which > indicators pkg_delete uses to decide whether a particular package or port > is already installed. With that information in mind, I might be able to > fix the problem by hand. Perhaps you could also explain the rationale behind > having them both not use the same indicators, too, so that it might not > simply appear to me to be a glaring design error. Check into /var/db/pkg if you wish. All of the installed pkg data is kept there. I agree though with Kris. This email chain's a mess.. -Garrett
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