Re: Reinstalling the package

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:

> Suppose I want to REinstall the package with the same version 1.2.3.
> 
> Can the following cause any breakages?
> 
>   pkg_delete -f xyz
>   pkg_add /path/to/xyz-1.2.3.tgz
> 
> If yes, in which situations. Examples in pkgsrc tree?

Runtime usage -- temporarily break software. (As a workaround I had 
patch for pkg_add for a new replace option that overwrote existing 
package and then attempted to remove files not in new package.)

Loss of +REQUIRED_BY data, so next time pkg_add may allow it to be 
deinstalled without using -f.