Re: problem installing tin-1.4.4 from the ports tree

[Marc Espie <Marc.Espie@liafa.jussieu.fr>]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:32:16PM -0600, George Nelson wrote:
> It seems when I ran pkg_delete tin-1.4.19990214, it cleared out the sym
> links or whatnot.  Whatever it did, it allowed me to run make install again.
> When I ran make install from the ports tree again, everything installed
> fine.

Nothing strange about it.
Once in a blue moon, people who write ports err, and you get mangled
packing-lists. More frequently, users start deleting files under /usr/local,
without checking what's in /var/db. Then pkg_delete screams murder, as it
can't find what it knows is installed...

Fortunately for you, pkg_delete only complains that something was not quite
right, most of the time, but still runs the delete to completion.

Hence the behavior you saw.
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