From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Oct 9 15:28:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B95437B408; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:28:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15r5Ma-000567-00; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:28:36 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f99MSaK09600; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:28:36 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:28:35 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Removing symbolic links in the package with pkg_delete Message-ID: <20011010112835.A9529@jonc.itouch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message