On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 05:40:17AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 07:10:53AM +0200, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> > 
> > I had a problem while deleting this package with pkg_delete:
> > 
> > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/pkg/share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear/Contents/Resources'
> > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/pkg/share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear/Contents'
> > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/pkg/share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear'
> > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/pkg/share/kde/apps/kopete/styles'
> > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory '/usr/pkg/share/kde/apps/kopete'
> > Executing `/bin/rmdir /usr/pkg/share/kde/apps/knewsticker 2>/dev/null || true'
> > pkg_delete: couldn't entirely delete package `kdenetwork-3.5.7'
> > (perhaps the packing list is incorrectly specified?)
> > 
> > It took me a while to figure out what was wrong:
> > 
> > diff -b -u -r1.26 PLIST
> > --- PLIST	23 May 2007 13:10:04 -0000	1.26
> > +++ PLIST	23 Jun 2007 05:06:49 -0000
> > @@ -1726,13 +1726,13 @@
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Gaim/Contents
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Gaim
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear/Contents/Resources/images

> > +@dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear/Contents/Resources/Variants

> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear/Contents/Resources/Outgoing
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear/Contents/Resources/Incoming
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear/Contents/Resources
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear/Contents
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clean/Contents/Resources/images

> > -@dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clear/Contents/Resources/Variants
                                             ^

> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clean/Contents/Resources/Outgoing
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clean/Contents/Resources/Incoming
> >  @dirrm share/kde/apps/kopete/styles/Clean/Contents/Resources
> > 
> > I haven't tested it yet, but it looks like this will fix the problem.
> 
> In the error output you give about, I don't see a message that says
> pkg_delete tried to remove a nonexistent directory, so why do you need
> to remove the .../Clean/.../Variants line from the PLIST?

Take a closer look then you see why it took me a while to see the problem.

Hint: s/r/n/

Removing a directory while it is not empty doesn't work and thats the case
here, because of the wrong oder of @drirm

> > Does this need a PKGREVISION bump or not?
> 
> Yes, this needs a PKGREVISION bump since the binary package needs to
> be rebuilt.

I thougth so too, thats why I send a Mail to the maintainer.

Bernd