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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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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

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