Have some troubles after deleting group of packages...

Bruce M. Simpson bms at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 22 23:48:08 UTC 2007


Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > After it I've deleted those packages by "pkg_delete" command. Firstly
>  > it seemed all OK, but later I have collided with such problems:
>  > 
>  > $ sudo tcpdump                                                                     
>  > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libpcap.so.4: Shared object has no run-time symbol table
>
> That's strange, because /lib/libpcap.so.4 is part of the
> FreeBSD base system.  It doesn't come from any package.
>   
Was the PCAP_OVERWRITE_BASE option set in the environment during the 
port build/install?

If so pcap could have been overwritten but I believe it *should not* 
record such an install in the package manifests, therefore it *should 
not* delete a file which is not owned by the package system.

BMS


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