Within one hour, "Mac" asked the same question three different ways, with three different subject lines, and in the third one, cc'ed the KDE list, which I have dropped from this reply, as this has nothing to do with KDE, rather, with port/package management on OpenBSD.
Question #1: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:44:23 -0600, macintoshzoom wrote > Can't safely update to kdeutils-3.5.9p0 (use -F update to force it) > # > > How should I do "(use -F update to force it)" from my ports folder, > there is no "make -f update" command? Answer #1: Use pkg_add(8). Note the "-F update" option in the man page. Then, after remembering if you manually updated files in /usr/local for that particular package, use pkg_add to update the package. You might use something like: # env PKG_PATH=/usr/ports/packages/<arch>/all/ pkg_add -ri -F update kdeutils Question #2: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:19:16 -0600, macintoshzoom wrote > blah blah Can't safely update blah blah > # > does this means kdeutils-3.5.9p0 is already updated? Answer #2: No. It means after building the package, make was unable to install it as there are install/deinstall scripts involved. See Answer #1. On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:42:35 -0600, macintoshzoom wrote > > ...does this means kdeutils-3.5.9p0 is already updated? No, see Answers #1 and #2. > If so I don't need to execute /usr/local/bin/update-desktop-database, > unless It can reset, clean or improve something, if I discover what. > > Does anyone knows what exactly it does this > /usr/local/bin/update-desktop-database ? You can find out which package the file belongs to by issuing: $ pkg_info -E /usr/local/bin/update-desktop-database Once you learn that, you can see the complete list of files associated with that package by issuing: $ pkg_info -L <whatever the package is> If you output that to a pager, such as more(1) or less(1), e.g.: $ pkg_info -L <package> | less You can then browse the files to see if there's a man page, an info file, or documentation that may lead you to discover what the file does. I hope this helps. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
