Re: "pkg_delete -f" does not work right

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Ohhhh. What does "a NAMI entry"  mean?

This is new to me.

On Sun, Aug 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Martin
>
> So I need  you to explain:
>
>
> cd /usr/sbin
> pkg_delete -V
>
> cd /usr/pkg/sbin
> pkg_delete -V
>
> THESE are not always the same as
>
> /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -V
>     ## IN THIS , I get 20210410
>
> /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_delete -V
>     ## IN THIS , I get 20250219
>
> I thought this is COOL. But what does this mean?
>
> BTW; I made, and installed /usr/pkg/bootstrap.
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 01, 2025 at 03:51:41PM -0400, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > > I built and installed ninvaders-0.1 .
> > > When I delete, I get this:
> > >
> > > gandalf# /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -f ninvaders-0.1.1nb1
> > > /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -f ninvaders-0.1.1nb1
> > > pkg_delete: Opening pkgdb failed
> >
> > Can you check the following three things please?
> >
> > 1) Do you have other versions of the pkg_* tools installed, e.g.
> >    /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_add ? Maybe some other variant gets found via $PATH
> >    first and used for installation, but /usr/sbin/pkg_delete uses
> >    a different PKGDB directory?
> >
> > 2) Does /usr/pkg/pkgdb/ninvaders-0.1.1nb1 exist and has files like
> >    +BUILD_INFO         +CONTENTS           +REQUIRED_BY
> >    +BUILD_VERSION      +DESC               +SIZE_ALL
> >    +COMMENT            +INSTALLED_INFO     +SIZE_PKG
> >
> > 3) Is /usr/sbin/pkg_delete actually trying to open /usr/pkg/pkgdb ?
> >    Run:
> >         ktrace /usr/sbin/pkg_delete -f ninvaders-0.1.1nb1
> >    and then
> >         kdump | more
> >    search for Opening pkgdb failed
> >    and check the lines before it for a NAMI entry
> >
> >
> > Martin