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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/419: pkg_delete refuses to delete an incompletely added package
To: fenner@parc.xerox.com
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 23:59:32 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199505150010.RAA07542@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Bill Fenner" at May 14, 95 05:10:01 pm
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> 
> 
> >Number:         419
> >Category:       bin
> >Synopsis:       pkg_delete refuses to delete an incompletely added package
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       serious
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Sun May 14 17:10:01 1995
> >Originator:     Bill Fenner
> >Organization:
> Xerox PARC
> >Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386
> >Environment:
> 
> 	
> 	FreeBSD-2.0 SNAP-950412
> 
> >Description:
> 
> 	
> 
> As described in another bug report, there are some incomplete package files,
> which pkg_add prints lots of errors for but then updates the database anyway.
> pkg_delete complains, like
> 
> Script started on Sun May 14 16:53:49 1995
> # pkg_delete netpbm-94.3.1
> Unable to completely remove file '/usr/X11R6/bin/pbmmerge'
> Unable to completely remove file '/usr/X11R6/bin/pgmmerge'
> Unable to completely remove file '/usr/X11R6/bin/ppmmerge'
> Unable to completely remove file '/usr/X11R6/bin/pnmmerge'
...

When list are 900+ lines long please don't but them in the
bug report verbatium.  We get the idea if you just give
the first 3 of 4 lines and then do the ... like I did
above :-).


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