From edward@edcom.com Thu Apr 20 18:48:43 1995 Received: from edcom.com (edcom.com [140.174.173.185]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA19476 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:48:41 -0700 Received: (from edward@localhost) by edcom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA00366; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:48:35 -0700 Message-Id: <199504210148.SAA00366@edcom.com> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 18:48:35 -0700 From: Edward Wang Reply-To: edward@edcom.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: pkg_delete aborts when subcommand fails X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 357 >Category: bin >Synopsis: pkg_delete aborts when subcommand fails >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: jkh >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 20 18:50:01 1995 >Closed-Date: Sun Jun 2 21:32:19 PDT 1996 >Last-Modified: Sun Jun 2 21:32:50 PDT 1996 >Originator: & Wang >Release: FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386 >Organization: >Environment: 950322-SNAP >Description: When pkg_delete fails to remove a file, it leaves the package in the database, which will then have to be removed by hand. There is apparently no way to force the removal of the package. This happens all the time, because errors or missing files in packages are common. >How-To-Repeat: pkg_add xanim2683.tgz ... see missing man page error pkg_delete xanim2683 ... see can't remove man page error pkg_info xanim2683 ... see that package still claims to be installed >Fix: Don't know. Probably a flag should allow errors to be ignored. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh Responsible-Changed-By: pst Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Feb 7 17:19:04 PST 1996 Responsible-Changed-Why: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: jkh State-Changed-When: Sun Jun 2 21:32:19 PDT 1996 State-Changed-Why: This is fixed. >Unformatted: