Re: unable to update pkgsrc from 1.6.2

[Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar%fessel.org@localhost>]

Am 01.04.2010 um 12:33 schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger:

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:50:15AM +0200, Jan-Hinrich Fessel wrote:
> > Is there any way to force pkgsrc's build system to actually delete
> > the old files and install the new ones?
> > Or must I do a replace instead of an upgrade?  What does this do to
> > dependencies I als want to be updated?
>
> The problem is that you seemed to have ended up with multiple versions
> of readline in the database. Just do another "pkg_delete -f readline".

thanks, pkg_delete readline twice fixes this issue.  And yes, looking  
at pkg_info from before the upgrade, two packages identified  
themselves as "readline".  Is there any way to reduce those duplicate  
instances to only one?

> I would also suggest "pkg_admin rebuild" as the database is most  
> likely
> semi-broken.

Yes, it is semi-broken.  Actually, pkg_admin is complaining about  
packages in the db but not on disk.

Cheers
        Oskar