port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

[Chuck Swiger]

paul beard wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2004, at 2:29 PM, Charles Swiger wrote:
>> Stop using portupgrade for a moment; do a "make deinstall" of the 
>> expat port (or use "pkg_delete -f"), do a "make clean", and then do a 
>> "make reinstall".
> 
> been there, done that, got the bloody knuckles to show for it.
> 
> [/usr/ports/textproc/expat2]# pkg_info -g /var/db/pkg/expat-1.95.7/
> Information for expat-1.95.7:
> 
> Mismatched Checksums:
> pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so doesn't exist
> 
> pkg_info: /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.5 doesn't exist
> 
> I think something's broken.

You bet: I think you manually deleted files owned by a package.  :-)
What I suggested should get rid of the broken reference....

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-Chuck