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Re: Really big port problem :-)


From: Eirik Nygaard <eirikn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:59:29 +0100

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 02:12:23PM -0500, Skip Ford wrote:
> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > Skip Ford <skip.ford@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to get a full list of all the ports I have installed with
> >>> pkg_info, but it dies somewhere in the l's :-)
> >>> 
> >>> libxfce4mcs-4.0.0   XFce 4 settings management library used by most XFce4 modu
> >>> libxfce4util-4.0.0  XFce 4 library with non-graphical helper functions
> >>> libxml-1.8.17_1     Xml parser library for GNOME
> >>> libxml2-2.6.2_1     Xml parser library for GNOME
> >>> pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@crcent */,'
> >>
> >> If you list the contents of the /var/db/pkg/ directory
> >> alphabetically, what comes after libxml2-2.6.2_1, and what
> >> are the contents of the '+CONTENTS' file in that directory?
> > 
> > linux_base-8-8.0_2 (which I'm pretty sure I pkg_deleted a few days ago)
> 
> Something must've gone wrong with that delete then.
> 
> > I'm not gonna dump the entire contents of +CONTENTS here, but the bad
> > line seems to be:
> [snip]
> > Next time I'm in DragonFly, I'll try and pkg_delete it again.
> 
> You can try, but pkg_delete may get stuck where pkg_info did.
> You may be able to just delete the offending line.  Or if you
> can track down the contents and delete them by hand then you may
> be able to just rm -rf that directory.
> 
> You can also remove the '+CONTENTS' file and do a forced reinstall
> just to be able to do a clean delete.  Might be interesting to see
> if the corruption happens again.
> 
> Whatever you do, be sure to run pkgdb -F a lot.
> 
> -- 
> Skip
> 

This is because of the conflict keyword that has been added to pkg_*,
Hiten fixed it for pkg_add, I'll take a look at it for the rest of the
pkg_* pack.

-- 
Eirik Nygaard
eirikn@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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