Re: pkg_add goofiness in 7.0

perryh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
What you showed does not indicate a failure. If you are saying
that the package wasn't actually installed completely, then
pkg_delete it and retry.

I am not saying that the package was installed incompletely,
incorrectly, or something else because I don't know which of those
applies. *The package installation itself* threw an error message,
with no instructions for recovery, and left the package database
corrupted (incorrectly showing the package as installed).

Fine, but there is nothing I can do to help you without knowing what the error was.

pkg_delete was only partially successful, perhaps because it was
unable to completely clean up the corruption. Now what?

# pkg_delete -v linuxdoc-1.1_1
Trying to remove dependency on package 'xmlcatmgr-2.2' with 'textproc/xmlcatmgr' origin.
Trying to remove dependency on package 'iso8879-1986_2' with 'textproc/iso8879' origin.
Change working directory to /usr/local
Delete file /usr/local/share/sgml/linuxdoc/README
Execute '/usr/local/bin/xmlcatmgr -sc /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports remove linuxdoc/catalog'
xmlcatmgr: enabling compatibility mode; removing ALL matching entries
xmlcatmgr: no matching entry for `linuxdoc/catalog' of any type
pkg_delete: unexec command for '/usr/local/bin/xmlcatmgr -sc /usr/local/share/sgml/catalog.ports remove linuxdoc/catalog' failed
Delete file /usr/local/share/sgml/linuxdoc/catalog
Delete file /usr/local/share/sgml/linuxdoc/freebsd-1.0.dtd
Delete file /usr/local/share/sgml/linuxdoc/freebsd-1.1.dtd
Delete file /usr/local/share/sgml/linuxdoc/linuxdoc.dec
Delete file /usr/local/share/sgml/linuxdoc/original.dtd
Delete directory /usr/local/share/sgml/linuxdoc
Change working directory to .
pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package (perhaps the packing list is
incorrectly specified?)



As I said, now try to repeat the original problem.

Kris
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