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Date:      Fri, 04 Apr 2003 18:46:18 +0200
From:      des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: ports and /var/db/pkg
Message-ID:  <xzpy92qcisl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <025401c2fa9e$c60fdba0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> ("Matthew Emmerton"'s message of "Fri, 4 Apr 2003 06:38:54 -0500")
References:  <E191P70-000Iw8-00@cs.huji.ac.il> <025401c2fa9e$c60fdba0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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"Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> writes:
> If you know that package XYZ exists in /var/db/pkg but isn't in /usr/local
> (probably because you didn't 'make deinstall' or pkg_delete it), just do
> this:
>
> rm -rf /var/db/pkg/XYZ

Umm, no, just pkg_delete it and ignore the warnings about missing files.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org



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