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Date:      Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:07:29 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports update
Message-ID:  <15016.11473.600954.189481@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <71534002@toto.iv>

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Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> types:
> If you want to purge libtool-1.3.4, remove it with pkg_delete, and
> reinstall libtool-1.3.4_2. You may not be able to do this cleanly,
> though... The only way to force a package removal that has dependencies
> to satisfy is to hack away at /var/db/pkg, which is not a clean
> solution.

No, a *much* better way is to use "pkg_delete -f". It's still not
clean, but its much better than hacking at /var/db/pkg.

	<mike
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