Richard DeLaurell wrote:
Oliver Fromme wrote:
PS: To check the consistency of your package database,
you can use this small script (requires Python):
http://www.secnetix.de/olli/scripts/pkg_check_dependencies
If you get no output from pkg_check_dependencies -q,
then your
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
Richard DeLaurell wrote:
I reveal my ignorance: why does this work to delete the package
# pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/py24-gobject*
while 'pkg_delete py24-gobject*' did not?
Use the -f, Luke. The force! Use the force! :-)
Oliver Fromme wrote:
PS: To check the consistency of your package database,
you can use this small script (requires Python):
http://www.secnetix.de/olli/scripts/pkg_check_dependencies
If you get no output from pkg_check_dependencies -q,
then your dependencies are good.
Oliver,
I've run
Sorry if this is more appropriate for the newbie list, but that one seems to
be inactive since 2005.
I am trying to install py25-gobject from ports
(/usr/ports/devel/py-gobject), but make complains that an older version
(py24-gobject) is already installed.
Deinstalling from that same directory
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 07:41:15 -0500, Richard DeLaurell
richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote:
I tried pkg_delete to see what depends on py24-gobject and it's a hefty
list; is deinstalling that entire list and then installing py25-gobject the
only option for me?
No, it would be possible to first
I reveal my ignorance: why does this work to delete the package
# pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/py24-gobject*
while 'pkg_delete py24-gobject*' did not?
Would the latter have done the trick if issued from the /var/db/pkg
directory itself?
In any event your solution does seem to have
Perhaps my installation is incomplete?
perhaps man [whatever] would work better? or maybe
http://freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi ? :)
or maybe even google :)
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:24:18 -0500, Richard DeLaurell
richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote:
I reveal my ignorance: why does this work to delete the package
# pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/py24-gobject*
while 'pkg_delete py24-gobject*' did not?
Use the -f, Luke. The force! Use the force!
