linux-gtk2-2.2.1_3 not deinstalling on Rel. 4.11p10

Alexander Leidinger Alexander at Leidinger.net
Sun Jun 19 11:50:50 GMT 2005


On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:34:54 +0200
Benjamin Thelen <bt at ccgis.de> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> portupgrade -aRr fails on these three ports.
> 
> 
> linux-gtk2-2.2.1_3          <  needs updating (port has 2.2.1_4)
> linux-realplayer-10.0.2_1   <  needs updating (port has 10.0.4)
> linuxpluginwrapper-20050320  <  needs updating (port has 20050613)
> 
> 
> I suppose linux-realplayer and linuxpluginwrapper fail to install 
> because of linux-gtk2 obviously cannot be deinstalled - the 
> error-message is:
> 
> pkg_delete: package 'linux-gtk2-2.2.1_3' doesn't have a prefix

There's something broken in /var/db/pkg/linux-gtk2-2.2.1_3. The quick
way of fixing this is to run
  rm -rf /var/db/pkg/linux-gtk2-2.2.1_3
  cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2
  make install clean
  pkgdb -F

Bye,
Alexander.

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