problem running pkg_delete
Robert Huff
roberthuff at rcn.com
Sun May 13 02:54:17 UTC 2012
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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