Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:15:23 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgdb -F and obsolete packages Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0901271615x18d7e562rb3b01e5212464599@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090127230054.162fa906@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20090127141126.35d9004f@gumby.homeunix.com> <55F4ACB2-9A22-45D0-A74B-8440AA9CE730@gmail.com> <20090127230054.162fa906@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:56:06 -0800
> Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:11 AM, RW wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > After updating my ports tree, pkgdb prompted me to remove a couple
>> > of obsolete packages and then failed to delete them (see below).
>> >
>> > I deleted them manually, but I would have thought pkgdb should
>> > either removed the dependencies first, or force the delete and then
>> > handle the stale dependencies afterwards.
>
>> pkg_delete -f xphelloworld-1.0.1_1 (or make deinstall in the
>> ports directory) will do the trick.
>
> As I said, I've already deleted them. I just not sure whether it's a bug
> that's worth a PR, or just ultra-conservative design. At best it's a
> rough edge.
Agreed. Did you contact sem@ about this yet?
>> Just make sure to upgrade after
>> that ;). This is most likely a usage bug with pkg_install / pkgdb; I
>> think there might be a -f option that you can use, but honestly
>> that's like playing with fire.
>
> It doesn't have anything to do with pkg_install, pkgdb is part of
> the portupgrade port.
I meant pkg_deinstall.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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