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November 7, 2008

package manager fail


$ uname -a
Darwin ... 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep 3 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

$ man repair_packages
...
BUGS
repair_packages does not verify file contents or restore missing files;
It can only verify or repair filesystem permissions.

$ man pkgutil
...
BUGS
Package dependency analysis and reference counting are not yet available,
hence there is no --uninstall command yet.

Come on... I mean really.

FAIL.

Posted by dberger at November 7, 2008 10:07 AM