On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:33:28AM +0100, frantisek holop wrote:
> hi there,
>
> so here is a real life example.
> i started an install on a clean machine.
> the box locked up, i did a hard reboot.
> the +CONTENTS entry of pango got corrupted.
> so i deleted all of /var/db/pkg/pango-*
> now i'd like to reinstall it.
>
> what is the correct procedure here? do i have
> to remove everything and start over?
>
> i tried a simple pkg_add cairo, of course pkg_add
> complains, some files have the same checksum, some
> dont but in the end it says fatal issues in installing
> pango and aborts.
>
> reading the man page, it would seem to me, that -F conflicts
> is for cases like this but it ends the same.
>
> i also tried a pkg_add -u to see how it reacts but
> it just went through all the existing packages
> and ignored pango totally.
>
> -f
> --
> fact: fourteen out of every ten people like chocolate.
Try pkg_add -i, you'll see more useful stuff...
