macintoshzoom's questions regarding kdeutils

[Josh Grosse]

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.