Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 08:50:21 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remove all installed packages Message-ID: <20151209075021.GA1746@c720-r285885-amd64> In-Reply-To: <20151208232227.GA65909@neutralgood.org> References: <20151208200303.GA2194@c720-r285885-amd64> <CADV=szWo%2BGWqaPV_yia=9hCUt0-b-EB-QC_QW0w3y6nRzC21wQ@mail.gmail.com> <20151208202917.GA2269@c720-r285885-amd64> <20151208232227.GA65909@neutralgood.org>
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El día Tuesday, December 08, 2015 a las 06:22:27PM -0500, kpneal@pobox.com escribió: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 09:29:17PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El día Tuesday, December 08, 2015 a las 12:21:54PM -0800, Brian W. escribió: > > > > > That /usr/local rm is gross overkill. If you have the old pkg system an ls > > > of /var/db/pkg with the results sent to pkg_del would work. > > > > Sorry, I was asking to remove completely all ports installed with > > pkg(8), and this in a fast way w/o going through all dependencies; just > > to prepare for a complete fresh installation. > > It also deletes any customized configuration files in "/usr/local/etc". > > If you must go this route then make a point of not accidentally deleting > something you'll have wanted to keep. I maintain a list of all modified or added files below /usr/local, and based on this backups of them; thanks for all hints, yours and others; matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, 🌐 http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ +49-176-38902045
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