From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 28 07:01:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C2216A400 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5DE13C448 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9] (may be forged)) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l3S71n2r030961 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:01:49 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-187-164-17.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.164.17]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l3S71m2k023171 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:01:48 -0700 Message-ID: <4632F164.6010900@u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:01:56 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Bennett References: <200704280655.l3S6tGs7025719@mp.cs.niu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200704280655.l3S6tGs7025719@mp.cs.niu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.4.27.234433 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: annoying problems after upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE 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: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:01:50 -0000 Scott Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:38:31 -0400 quoth Kris Kennaway : > 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