Stale-Dependency problem after upgrade to 10

[Anton Berezin]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 01:45:01PM -0700, David Southwell wrote:
> On Monday 13 April 2009 11:17:38 Anton Berezin wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:06:19AM -0700, David Southwell wrote:
> > > Can anyone tell me how to fix this one:
> > >
> > > Stale dependency: bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15 -> perl-5.8.9_2 (lang/perl5.8):
> > > can't convert nil into string
> > >
> > >
> > > My update to 10 seems to be OK except for this..
> > >
> > > I have tried pkgdb -fF
> > > Tried pkg_deinstall bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15
> > >
> > > Obviously I do not know what I am meant to do with this!!
> >
> > Er, pkg_deinstall did not work?  Try pkg_delete and then pkgdb -fF.
> 
> HI
> 
> Thanks sorry I should have mentioned I tried that and got:
> [root at dns1 /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15]# pkg_delete bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc
> pkg_delete: no such package 'bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc' installed

Actually, pkg_delete wants a full package name or a pattern, so it should
be either

   pkg_delete bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-3.15

or

   pkg_delete bsdpan-Pod-Perldoc-\*

\Anton.
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