Thanks, will see all that tomorrow. Mac
Josh Grosse wrote: > Within one hour, "Mac" asked the same question three different ways, with > three different subject lines, and in the third one, cc'ed the KDE list, which > I have dropped from this reply, as this has nothing to do with KDE, rather, > with port/package management on OpenBSD. > > Question #1: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:44:23 -0600, macintoshzoom wrote > >> Can't safely update to kdeutils-3.5.9p0 (use -F update to force it) >> # >> >> How should I do "(use -F update to force it)" from my ports folder, >> there is no "make -f update" command? > > Answer #1: > > Use pkg_add(8). Note the "-F update" option in the man page. Then, after > remembering if you manually updated files in /usr/local for that particular > package, use pkg_add to update the package. You might use something like: > > # env PKG_PATH=/usr/ports/packages/<arch>/all/ pkg_add -ri -F update kdeutils > > Question #2: > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:19:16 -0600, macintoshzoom wrote > >> blah blah Can't safely update blah blah >> # >> does this means kdeutils-3.5.9p0 is already updated? > > Answer #2: > > No. It means after building the package, make was unable to install it as > there are install/deinstall scripts involved. See Answer #1. > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:42:35 -0600, macintoshzoom wrote >> ...does this means kdeutils-3.5.9p0 is already updated? > > No, see Answers #1 and #2. > >> If so I don't need to execute /usr/local/bin/update-desktop-database, >> unless It can reset, clean or improve something, if I discover what. >> >> Does anyone knows what exactly it does this >> /usr/local/bin/update-desktop-database ? > > You can find out which package the file belongs to by issuing: > > $ pkg_info -E /usr/local/bin/update-desktop-database > > Once you learn that, you can see the complete list of files associated with > that package by issuing: > > $ pkg_info -L <whatever the package is> > > If you output that to a pager, such as more(1) or less(1), e.g.: > > $ pkg_info -L <package> | less > > You can then browse the files to see if there's a man page, an info file, or > documentation that may lead you to discover what the file does. > > I hope this helps. > _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
