Subject: Re: pkg_delete refuses to execute +DEINSTALL
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@xtrmntr.org>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/06/2001 02:28:20
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
>   -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  1224 Nov  3 11:29 +DEINSTALL

This looks very fine to me.


>   # pkg_delete -v mutt
>   ./+DEINSTALL: permission denied
>   pkg_delete: deinstall script returned error status
>   pkg_delete: 1 package deletion(s) failed

Checking the ktrace output, this should just not happen.
Do you have any funky mount options in effect, that prevent executing
things on /var?

What does
 * mount
 * cd /var/db/pkg/mutt-* ; ./DEINSTALL
say?


 - Hubert

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