From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 00:55:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA16070 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:55:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA16063 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 00:55:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA23786; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 01:55:39 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199611200855.BAA23786@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: odd pkg problem To: brosenga@calvin.pitzer.edu Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 01:55:38 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Levels of Indirection" at Nov 18, 96 11:52:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Levels of Indirection said: > > After having some trouble with sudo (about which I might be asking later > if this doesn't resolve it), I tried deleting and reinstalling it. It > now seems to be in some sort of odd in-between state. pkg_add tells me > it's already there, but pkg_delete says it isn't. Any ideas? Thanks in > advance. try deleting the /var/db/pkg/sudo*/* files for it (or, rename the directory if you don't want to risk losing the directory) and then reinstalling. --don