ports/160516: pkg_delete error messages miss which package had the problem

Gary Palmer freebsd-gnats at in-addr.com
Tue Sep 6 14:30:01 UTC 2011


>Number:         160516
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       pkg_delete error messages miss which package had the problem
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 06 14:30:01 UTC 2011
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Gary Palmer
>Release:        7.4p2
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>Environment:
>Description:
While cleaning up some installed ports I ran


# pkg_delete objc-3.2.8_1 gcc-3.4.6_3,1 gcc-4.2.5.20090325_5 gcc-4.4.7.20110628
pkg_delete: '/usr/local/man/man3/Object.3.gz' fails original MD5 checksum - not deleted.
pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is
incorrectly specified?)


It seems that Object.3.gz is also installed by


# pkg_info -W /usr/local/man/man3/Object.3.gz
/usr/local/man/man3/Object.3.gz was installed by package open-motif-2.3.3


I'd love to file a PR reporting a conflict between which ever gcc installed the manpage and open-motif, but pkg_delete failed to mention which package had the problem.

The error message should have included the package name or other information which allowed the problem to be identified.
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