ports/113307: textproc/docbook-sk 4.2.1.4 needs to be completely removed

[Joe Kelsey]

The following reply was made to PR ports/113307; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joe Kelsey <joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us>
To: pav at FreeBSD.org
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/113307: textproc/docbook-sk 4.2.1.4 needs	to	be	completely
 removed
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:13:09 -0700

 Pav Lucistnik wrote:
 >>>>> I see the files are already registered with the catalog on your
 >>>>> machines.  Can you try with pkg_which(1), what port claims their
 >>>>> ownership?
 >>>>>
 >>>>> pkg_which /usr/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/dbpoolx.mod
 >>>>>
 >>>>>   
 >>>>>       
 >>>>>           
 >>>> ?
 >>>>
 >>>>
 >>>> I suspect it returns ? because I have had to run pkgdb -F and remove all 
 >>>> docbook-sk dependencies.
 >>>>     
 >>>>         
 >>> ? means stray file, not registered with any package.
 >>>
 >>> So you basically have to clean up your machine to
 >>>
 >>> 1) have no stray files under /usr/local
 >>> 2) have no catalog registrations for these files
 >>>
 >>> All docbook ports should de-register from catalog on deinstall.
 >>> How exactly you removed them last time?
 >>>
 >>>   
 >>>       
 >> What you say makes no sense at all to me.
 >>
 >> What exactly do you mean?  I am not oware of any stray files anywhere on 
 >> my machine or how I would classify a file as being "stary" or not.
 >>     
 >
 > If `pkg_which file' call returns `?' for file under /usr/local, the file
 > is stray and have no business being present.
 >   
 So, you are saying that the file 
 '/usr/local/share/xml/docbook/4.1.2/dbpoolx.mod' is stray?  You could 
 just say those exact words instead of going on and on about something 
 mysterious which is apparantly "stray".  I am not familiar with the 
 words you have chosen to use in this context.  If you say "stray file", 
 please enumerate the "stray" files or tell me how I can find them.  You 
 did neither.
 
 I really do appreciate your helping, but sometimes you have to be very 
 explicit to people who may not be as familiar with the port as you are.  
 I treat all docbook ports as nuiscances since I do not see them provide 
 me with any features at all.  I remove them and nothing changes, 
 therefore they are useless to me, but somehow required by parts of the 
 ports.
 >   
 >> I sent you my catalog files.  Is there anything in the catalog files which 
 >> looks "stray" to you?
 >>     
 >
 > If the catalog file references file, which return `?' on pkg_which call,
 > these lines must be removed together with the files.
 >
 > You haven't answered my question - how do you deinstalled docbook-sk
 > port last time?
 >   
 I always use pkg_delete.
 
 /Joe
 >   
 >> As 
 >> far as I am concerned, docbook ports are ALL fundamentally broken since 
 >> I cannot upgrade any of them without a great deal of pain and suffering.
 >>     
 >
 > You don't say.
 >
 >