Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:13:48 +1100 From: Chris Knight <stryqx@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recursively Deinstalling and Upgrading Packages/Ports without Breaking Dependencies? Message-ID: <CAHgj5TRYHbCKzVGvG4UzDO0LMZBRqUAsyk%2BiPcAwwUdtA36n-w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54C73B84.1080704@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <54C6CDB5.2040501@gmail.com> <54C73B84.1080704@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Howdy, On 27 January 2015 at 18:17, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 2015/01/26 23:28, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: >> With portupgrade, I used to use "pkg_deinstall -R" to deinstall a >> package and its dependencies while preserving the packages on which >> other packages were depending on. With pkgng, the behaviour of >> "pkg_deinstall -R" changed and this command is now breaking >> dependencies. Is there a new method to safely remove packages recursively? > > # pkg delete pkgname > # pkg autoremove > That only works if the dependencies were added as automatic dependencies. Won't work if the dependency wasn't automatically added as part of the package's prerequisites for installation. -- Regards, Chris Knight
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