cvs commit: ports/x11-wm Makefile ports/x11-wm/metacity-setup ports/x11-wm/metacity-setup/files patch-src_callbacks.c patch-src_interface.c

[Paul Richards]

On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 16:45, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:39, Paul Richards wrote:
> > Is there a recommended way of dealing with removed packages?
> 
> That's what the MOVED file is supposed to do.  In a way, it does work. 
> The best thing to do in _this_ situation is do portupgrade gnome2, then
> pkgdb -F and remove metacity-setup.  You'll note when you run the pkgdb
> command, it will print the metacity-setup remove message from the MOVED
> file.

That doesn't work for me. portupgrade aborts the upgrade of gnome2
because the metacity-setup upgrade fails. If you then run pkgdb -F, it
prints the MOVED message and offers to delete it, but pkg_delete fails
because of the gnome2 dependency.

Paul.