Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 22:54:15 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Subject: Re: problem running pkg_delete Message-ID: <20399.8791.158452.294043@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4FAF0BEA.9040408@missouri.edu> References: <20398.43728.425481.287491@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4FAEF150.5070202@missouri.edu> <4FAEF2E0.50806@missouri.edu> <20120513010619.GA6515@DataIX.net> <4FAF0BEA.9040408@missouri.edu>
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Stephen Montgomery-Smith writes: > > You would probably get the same message from: > > mkdir /var/db/pkg/Source > > pkg_delete Source > > > > Try it out! > > I did think of this. But this creates the error message: > > pkg_delete: the package info for package 'Source' is corrupt (use -f to > force removal) > > and is generated from within pkg_do in > /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete/perform.c > > This has the additional part to the message "(use -f to force > removal)" which the OP did not report. And if you look at the > source, you will see that it has to have some kind of additional > message, the other possibility being "(but I'll delete it > anyway)". But maybe the OP forgot to report this. No, they didn't. Robert Huff
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