(proposal) new flag for pkg_delete

Will Andrews will at csociety.org
Wed Sep 3 07:47:35 PDT 2003


On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:39:48PM +0100, David Taylor wrote:
> It fails to mention that if -f is specified it will also delete any files
> where the MD5 checksum is incorrect.  I have now been repeatedly bitten by
> portupgrade wiping my configuration information because it specifies -f
> (as it must, in order to remove packages which are still 'in use' by other
> packages).

Wrong way to fix the problem.  Make the ports install sample
config files and only add those to the plist, not the actual ones.

Regards,
-- 
wca


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