PKG_NG: pkg deinstall fails with "argument list too long"

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 08:03:46PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote:
> PKG_NG seems to have introduced a limit on the size of ports that can be
> deinstalled:
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/math/lapack
> #  make deinstall
> ===>  Deinstalling for math/lapack
> ===>   Deinstalling lapack-3.4.0_2
> The following packages will be deinstalled:
> 
>         lapack-3.4.0_2
> 
> The deinstallation will free 28 MB
> Deinstalling lapack-3.4.0_2...lapack-3.4.0_2 is required by:
> qrupdate-1.1.1, deleting anyway
> pkg: Cannot run script(DEINSTALL): Argument list too long
> *** [deinstall] Error code 3
> 
> This is on an up-to-date -CURRENT with freshly fetched ports and
> pkg-1.0.r6_1 and WITH_PKGNG=yes in /etc/make.conf.
> 
> Regards, STefan
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The bug is fixed in git and will be in final release.

To workaround you can run make FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=1 install

this will safely reinstall it, and pkg delete will work again.

regards,
Bapt
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