Re: [Pkgutil-users] cannot force uninstall / reinstall

[Peter B. <bon...@op...>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Adam Edgar <ae...@re...> wrote:
> I have a broken dependency on svn for the aprutil library. I believe a reinstall of svn would resolve it but running
>
> sudo pkgutil -r --force CSWsvn
>
> simply spits out the following:
>
> Solving needed dependencies ...
> Looking at installed packages ...
> Examining dependencies for:
>  CSWsvn (in use)
> ...
>  CSWlibz1 (in use)
> Nothing to remove.
>
>
> Shouldn't --force just remove the package regardless of dependencies?  I am using 2.6.2 of pkgutil BTW.

Force is mostly about being able to install older stuff than you have
locally, e.g. if you have tried some experimental repo/package and
wants to go back to your normal one it wouldn't work because the
package version/timestamp there would be older but force solves that
by simply ignoring it. If I remember correctly it doesn't do anything
together with remove.

Just do:

# pkgrm CSWsvn
# pkgutil -i CSWsvn

Tip for others using the remove option in pkgutil: it can only remove
packages not in use, i.e. no other package depends on it. Run the same
command over and over again until nothing more can be removed because
every time you remove something it can free up another package.

/peter