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Old 3rd June 2013
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Default 4 py-*** packages wouldn't accept uninstall or repair

Hi everybody ! I hope you all are doing well ..

I'm running OpenBSD -current
Code:
kern.version=OpenBSD 5.3-current (GENERIC.MP) #161: Mon May 27 10:59:35 MDT 2013
    deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
I've done something foolish which I unfortunately don't remember (might be when I killed some installation/removal process ) which caused this message to appear each time I install a package :

Code:
No pkgname in packing-list for py-configobj-4.5.3p3
No pkgname in packing-list for py-twisted-conch-11.1.0
No pkgname in packing-list for py-axiom-0.6.0p3
No pkgname in packing-list for py-crypto-2.6p0
pkg_add -D repair gets me nowhere :
Code:
Absolute name forbidden: /výîùéPÌìxúSa»[¦ã±4¼äþ"{ó®àààþGSÊzdá; at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackingElement.pm line 210, <$fh> line 30, in /var/db/pkg/py-crypto-2.6p0/+CONTENTS,  at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackingList.pm line 306, <$fh> line 30.
Neither can I repair nor remove any of that Fantastic_4 Team .. eg:

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Fatal error: package py-twisted-conch-11.1.0 is missing a @name in plist
 at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/Delete.pm line 99.
Any help is much appreciated .. Thank you very much.
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Your package installation database records are stored in /var/db/pkg. Each installed package has a directory in this structure, containing specially named text files that begin with a "+" symbol. To address these files from your shell, you will have to either escape the symbol or address with a path, such as:

$ less ./+CONTENTS

It is my assumption that you have damaged this database.
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Old 4th June 2013
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Hi Teacher jggimi !
Thank you !
I once had ratpoison damaged (this time no fsck repairs and no unclean shutdown) ..
when I less ./+CONTENTS it says the file is binary (=damaged)
Maybe a foolish idea to solve the problem but I wonder :
having a similar disk , same kern.version , same laptop , can I just copy and paste the respective +CONTENTS of the 4 damaged packages to get them working again ? otherwise is there a solution for such a problem ?
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I had trouble on a test system going from OpenBSD 5.2 to 5.3.

Several of the packages would not upgrade as my /var/pkg/db was damaged.

So I decided to just delete all packages and the database and start over.

Here are the steps I took.

1) Try to delete all packages:
#pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/*

2) For those packages that will not uninstall (damaged), download the package tar files from an OpenBSD ftp site and try re-installing them:
$ftp ftp.openbsd.org
get badpackage1.tgz
get badpackage2.tgz
....

#pkg_add -r -D badpackage1.tgz
#pkg_add -r -D badpackage2.tgz
...
3) After the "bad" packages are reinstalled, delete all packages again:
#pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/*

4) Now the database should be empty (undamaged) and you can reinstall all packages.
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Hi comet--berkeley and thanks for the post !
unfortunately :
Code:
# pkg_add -r -D update py-twisted-conch-11.1.0.tgz
|No change in quirks-1.82Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/Signature.pm line 98.
Use of uninitialized value $_ in hash element at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageName.pm line 51.
Use of uninitialized value $_ in pattern match (m//) at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/PackageName.pm line 57.
Can't locate object method "compare" via package "OpenBSD::PackageName::Stem" at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/Signature.pm line 135.
other -D keywords fail too ..

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Please post the names and contents of the files in /var/db/pkg/py-twisted-conch-11.1.0.tgz/
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Hi jggimi and thanks again for your constant Being-for-others ..
Code:
+CONTENTS    +DESC        +REQUIRED_BY +REQUIRING
Something funny happened after I had replaced the bad fatntastic 4 with good ones (from a similar disk) :
when I did a pkg_add -r -D update py-twisted it gave back lenthy error messages about bad checksums etc .. all I did afterwards is a pkg_delete -q for all 4 packages et voila :-)

Code:
pkg_info | grep py-
py-epsilon-0.6.0p2  small utility package for Divmod projects
py-openssl-0.13     Python interface to the OpenSSL library
py-setuptools-0.6.11p5v0 simplified packaging system for Python modules
py-sqlite2-2.6.0p3  SQLite3 adapter for Python
py-twisted-core-11.1.0 event-based Python framework (core module)
py-zopeinterface-3.6.1p2 object interface infrastructure from Zope 3
( I know it's a big daddy way of solving the problem .. sorry )
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Here in North America, we would say that was a brute force way of solving the problem.

I'm glad you were able to resolve it.
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lol !
You're right Teacher ! I wanted to say : it was an unskillful way of solving the problem (thinking of grandpa when trying to put things into order ) .. :-) ..
Thanks again jggimi and comet--berkeley !
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