Forcing pkg

[Kevin Oberman]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si>
wrote:

> 2014-09-04 02:00 Michael Ross wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 01:34:21 +0200, Paul Koch <paul.koch at akips.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 00:27:16 +0200
>>> "Michael Ross" <gmx at ross.cx> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>>
>>>> a second pkg question:
>>>>
>>>> Assume I have to install something *now*, like in: 5 minutes ago,
>>>> production on fire,
>>>> never mind corrupt pkg databases or anything, sort out later, need
>>>> service
>>>> up:
>>>>
>>>> Is there any equivalent to "pkg_add --force"?
>>>>
>>>> As in, *I* know the dependencies are met, and I *know* that pkg is wrong
>>>> in complaining?
>>>>
>>>> -DDISABLE_CONFLICTS doesn't work anymore?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Or, I want to install pkg A, but it relies on pkgs B, C, D,...
>>> I only want to use a single program in pkg A that I "know" has
>>> no dependencies and really don't want to pull in anything else.
>>>
>>>
>> like what would have been
>>
>>      -i, --no-deps
>>              Install the package without fetching and installing
>> dependencies.
>>
>> to pkg_add.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
>
> Another example over which I'm currently stuck:
>
>   # pkg install mailman  (or, same with: pkg upgrade)
>   The following 3 packages will be affected (of 0 checked):
>
>   Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>         postfix-current-2.12.20140709_2,4
>
>   New packages to be INSTALLED:
>         postfix: 2.11.1_4,1
>
>   Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
>         mailman: 2.1.18.1_1 -> 2.1.18.1_3
>
> I don't want the postfix-current to be removed. Mailman is perfectly
> capable of working with it and does not need postfix: 2.11.1.
>
>
> Even if I follow this path: remove postfix-current, install mailman
> and let it install postfix: 2.11.1, then try to remove postfix: 2.11.1
> and install postfix-current - it tries to deinstall mailman.
>
>   Mark
>

I think you could let the mailman install replace postfix-current with
postsfix and then:
pkg delete -f postfix: 2.11.1
pkg install mail/postfix-current

While I can't promise that this will work, I have done about this for
another case.
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com