Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:18:36 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mass uninstall all ports? Message-ID: <20010714181836.A88702@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010713001223.B48618@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_@yahoo.com on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:12:23AM -0400 References: <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> <20010712152205.A20322@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010713001223.B48618@moo.holy.cow>
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--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:12:23AM -0400, parv wrote: > on Jul 12 18:29, i got this from Kris... > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0700, abram olson wrote: > > > I just updated from 4.3 release to 4.3 stable. My > > > entire system is built via ports. I want to make some > > > updates but I keep running into endless dependency > > > chains. I'm doing a=20 > >=20 > > Look into portupgrade in the ports collection, which does a superb job > > of upgrading ports and dependencies in the correct order. > >=20 > > Kris >=20 > but that wouldn't take care of the original question posed -- how to=20 > deinstall/remove all the ports -- since portupgrade is itself, well, a > port... would it, kris? The hidden question was being asked is "I want to upgrade my installed ports, and one way I could do that is by removing everything and starting from scratch." That's one way, but not necessarily the best way. Kris --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE7UO9rWry0BWjoQKURAvMKAJjKY3KgfJjyy6KuIugGDXrAU9uyAJ0aOh3B aAHQuq+f9uDrATKC1P+mPA== =LIvC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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