pkgdb -F and obsolete packages

[Garrett Cooper]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:00 PM, RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:56:06 -0800
> Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:11 AM, RW wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > After updating my ports tree, pkgdb prompted me to remove a couple
>> > of obsolete packages and then failed to delete them (see below).
>> >
>> > I deleted them manually, but I would have thought pkgdb should
>> > either removed the dependencies first, or force the delete and then
>> > handle the stale dependencies afterwards.
>
>>       pkg_delete -f xphelloworld-1.0.1_1 (or make deinstall in the
>> ports directory) will do the trick.
>
> As I said, I've already deleted them. I just not sure whether it's a bug
> that's worth a PR, or just ultra-conservative design. At best it's a
> rough edge.

    Agreed. Did you contact sem@ about this yet?

>> Just make sure to upgrade after
>> that ;). This is most likely a usage bug with pkg_install / pkgdb; I
>> think there might be a -f option that you can use, but honestly
>> that's like playing with fire.
>
> It doesn't have anything to do with pkg_install, pkgdb is part of
> the portupgrade port.

    I meant pkg_deinstall.
Thanks,
-Garrett