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From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To: Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk>
Subject: Re: Forcing pkg
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 06:30:14AM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote:
> Quoth "Michael Ross" <gmx@ross.cx>:
> > >
> > >> Is there any equivalent to "pkg_add --force"?
> > >
> > > [...]

> > > tar xf mypkg.txz
> > >
> > > and move those extracted stuff to the place where it's needed.
> >=20

> [...]

>=20
> I suspect that would break the database, which, because it's now SQL,
> would matter a lot more than before. What you can do is
>=20
>     tar -xf $pkg +MANIFEST
>     vi ./+MANIFEST
>     tar -cf nomanifest --exclude +MANIFEST @$pkg
>     tar -cJf $newpkg +MANIFEST @nomanifest
>=20

Sigh.  Maybe I'm lost.  So, I have to ask.

Why, exactly, are we suggesting unpacking packaged packages into temp
directories and arbitrarily "doing things" with their contents?

Glen


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