From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 7:30:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kramer.thekramers.net (dsl092-068-235.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.68.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8037F37B417 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 07:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (david@localhost) by kramer.thekramers.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g5QEU0v05640 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:30:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:30:00 -0400 (EDT) From: David Kramer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux or Solaris In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, David Kramer wrote: > > > I have to go through the collection of ports and make sure everything I > > need is there, but I'm sure it is. BTW, is there a way to check what > > software is installed on your box? Is there an automated way of > > uninstalling ports? I couldn't find this info on freebsd.org. > > Take a closer look at pkg_info, pkg_delete and pkg_add. You can also I thought ports and packages were two different things. But if packages can me managed as explained above, and ports can be managed as explained below, then my concerns are covered. > delete an installed port by going to /usr/ports/*category*/*app*/, > then make deinstall. THANK YOU!!!! This was another thread on the BLU mailing list recently. I said that if Makefiles had a "make uninstall" to undo "make install", I would be much more likely to use them than RPM's, as I am opposed to management tools that track their information in databases that require a special application to view and change, instead of text files, which can be managed any way one wants. Do most ports have a "make deinstall" option? ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D "No matter how much cats fight, DK KD there always seem to be plenty of kittens." DDDD - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message