Deleting a package without deleting those that depend on it

J

JackD

Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade smokeping and I get the error:
Code: 
===>>> The dependency for www/p5-CGI
  seems to be handled by p5-CGI.pm-3.63_1,1

[...]

===>  p5-CGI-4.22 conflicts with installed package(s):
  p5-CGI.pm-3.63_1,1

  They will not build together.
  Please remove them first with pkg delete.
*** Error code 1

My thought on this was that I should be able to pkg delete p5-CGI.pm-3.63_1,1, however, it wants to delete smokeping as well. While I am tempted to allow it and then re-install p5-CGI and smokeping, I have historical data I don't want to lose.

So I would either like to delete only p5-CGI.pm-3.63_1,1 and I can't figure out how to do that. Or perhaps there is a different way to resolve this?
 
Copy your historical somewhere else, then do the pkg delete/pkg install?
Really, pkg delete should not delete user data, but do the copy anyway, just to be safe. :)
 
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