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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 17:33:12 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mark Jayson Alvarez <jay2xra@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Uninstalling software compiled from source
Message-ID:  <20050525003311.GA94690@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050525001700.46809.qmail@web51605.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050525001700.46809.qmail@web51605.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:17:00PM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> Hi,
>    Is there a way to remove all the components of a
> software that was installed from its source? Make
> uninstall doesn't work unlike when using the ports
> tree.

Not really..that's one of the reasons why the ports collection is so
useful.  You might be able to get part of the way there by using
find(1) creatively to identify files installed around the same time.

Kris
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