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

[Dagobert M. <da...@op...>]

Hi Peter,

Am 17.02.2012 um 17:26 schrieb Peter Bonivart:
> 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.
> 
> If I remember correctly it doesn't do anything together with remove.

It may more fit expectations to just remove the package, even when it has dependencies.
It can also be more useful than pkgrm because you can specify a catalog name.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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