On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> ===> Installing for pkg_install-20050204
> ===> pkg_install-20050106 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
> *** If so, you may use either of:
> ***  - "pkg_delete pkg_install-20050106" and "/usr/bin/make reinstall" to upgrade properly
> ***  - "/usr/bin/make update" to rebuild the package and all of its dependencies
> ***  - "/usr/bin/make replace" to replace only the package without re-linking
> ***    dependencies, risking various problems.
> *** Error code 1
>
>
> I'm loathe to do a pkg_delete on pkg_install; beyond that, are the
> instructions now wrong?  The machine I'm running on is -current.

My own pkg_install/Makefile has:
+# Removing this package would break pkgsrc, so allow this package to
+# reinstall over itself.
+# XXX need to figure out a way not to have multiple pkg entries for old ones.
+FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=    # defined

This is messy because I end up with:

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr  8  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040330
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr  9  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040409
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 May 26  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040508
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 22  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040508nb1
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 22  2004 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20040508nb2
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jan  7 10:02 /var/db/pkg/pkg_install-20050106


It would be good if it could set PKG_TOOLS_BIN to the appropriate WRKSRC
directory or set PKG_ADMIN and PKG_CREATE to work version at the
right time.


 Jeremy C. Reed

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