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Date:      Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:53:29 +1000
From:      Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org>
To:        Jon Falconer <jfalconer@puc.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: difference between deinstall and pkg_delete?
Message-ID:  <447FEE79.2040004@webanoide.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10606011103000.6635-100000@ecf2.puc.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10606011103000.6635-100000@ecf2.puc.edu>

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Jon Falconer wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I see in the man page for ports the following:
> 
>      reinstall        Use this to restore a port after using pkg_delete(1)
>                       when you should have used deinstall.
> 
> So I'm wondering what is the difference between pkg_delete and using "make
> deinstall" from within the ports directory? What does "make deinstall" do
> that pkg_delete does not do? What does pkg_delete do that "make deinstall"
> does not do?

Hi,

This will point you in the right direction:

http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-29467.html

man pkg_delete
man pkg_deinstall

Cheers,
Mikhail.

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