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Date:      Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:44:06 -0600
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem installing port
Message-ID:  <44243DF6.6000501@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <562C45D7C1184AAC528219F1@utd59514.utdallas.edu>
References:  <e019aa$rvs$1@sea.gmane.org> <562C45D7C1184AAC528219F1@utd59514.utdallas.edu>

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Paul Schmehl wrote:

> --On Friday, March 24, 2006 18:11:59 +0100 Matias Surdi 
> <matiassurdi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Could someone tell me why I get this error?
>>
>>
>> su-2.05b# portinstall  es-kde-i18n
>> ** Port marked as IGNORE: misc/kde3-i18n-es:
>>         is marked as broken: Incorrect pkg-plist
>> su-2.05b#
>>
> The port is broken because the pkg-plist is incorrect. 
> Until it's corrected, the port will remain marked broken. 
>

True.

> If you really need to install it anyway, you can use
> FORCE_PKG_REGISTER to get it to install.
>
> Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)



Actually, FORCE_PKG_REGISTER won't do it; this var is for
overriding an "already registered" package.  The OP could
set TRYBROKEN in the environment, and the package would
attempt to build.

OP:  since it's the plist that's broken, you may well be able
to install and use the port.  However, and please hear me,
you may not be able to *uninstall* the port correctly, since
the package database won't know all of the files that were
installed by the port (because the 'packlist' is incorrect).

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey

-- 
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style;
when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
		-- St. Ambrose





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