Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:28:35 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Removing symbolic links in the package with pkg_delete Message-ID: <20011010112835.A9529@jonc.itouch>
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Hi,
It may be worth mentioning in the Porter's Handbook that it's better
to list symbolic links in the pkg-plist prior to real files, otherwise
pkg_delete refuses to remove them if the file that it points to is
already gone, as the md5 checksum doesn't match.
Cheers.
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