Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:50:21 -0600 (CST) From: "Doug Poland" <dpoland@execpc.com> To: mavetju@chello.nl (Edwin Groothuis) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and packages Message-ID: <200101261750.LAA14587@earth.execpc.com> In-Reply-To: <20010126184228.A62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> from "Edwin Groothuis" at Jan 26, 1 06:42:28 pm
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Edwin Groothuis said... > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:34:53AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > I have a question about managing ports and packages. When I > > install a port, I can also see it when I run pkg_info. So, > > is it a port, or is it a package? > > A package is a pre-compiled port, and a port is registered into > the package system :-) > okay... > > > If I want to remove it, would I do a "pkg_delete" or > > "make deinstall"? > > That depends. If you have cvsup-t the ports-tree you often see that > the version in the ports-tree is not the one you have installed. > In that case you can only remove it with pkg_delete. If it is still > the same version you can delete it with make deinstall. > > If you look in the source of the makefiles in the ports-directory > (/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk) and search for ^deinstall, you will > see that it does nothing more that calling pkg_delete... > I'm currently not updating ports with cvsup so I can do either. Does a pkg_delete do a "make clean" as well? Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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