From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 8 17: 7:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A01C537B719 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:07:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 17233 invoked by uid 100); 9 Mar 2001 01:07:29 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15016.11473.600954.189481@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:07:29 -0600 To: Andrew Hesford Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports update In-Reply-To: <71534002@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Hesford 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. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message