Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:14:35 +0200 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best way to cleanly uninstall packages? Message-ID: <3F964A7B.6030405@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <941EC83D6E678C4CA92EE2AAE55874F78022@gir.routemaster.net> References: <941EC83D6E678C4CA92EE2AAE55874F78022@gir.routemaster.net>
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Hi Chris,
Chris Richards wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have installed 2 packages which inturn installed a bunch of
> dependencies... They are "imageindex-1.0.6" and "gallery-1.4.0.1" I was
> seeing which one I like best - now I have decided I want to keep gallery
> and uninstall imageindex.
>
> What is the cleanest way to do this? I have noticed that they both have
> common dependencies so I can't just use the "pkg_delete -r" option - I
> am sure this is a common problem and there is probably an easy way to
> uninstall all dependencies for imageindex except for the ones that are
> needed for gallery.
I think the '-r' option of 'pkg_delete' is not what you are looking for
because it works the other way round. It additionally deletes packages
that depend on the package you would like to deinstall. I understand
what you would like to do is get rid of packages that the package to be
deleted depends on, in order to tidy up after deciding on which of the
two photo gallery packages to keep.
I don't know whether there is a more elegant method that would do this
in one go, but what I would do is list the required packages with
pkg_info -r <packagename>
and feed the resulting list of required packages to
pkg_info -R <packagename> [<packagename> ...]
Pick those packages as additional candidates for removal that list only
the package that you want to remove in the first place. Now do the
whole process again for these additional packages and work your way down
the dependency tree recursively. I recommend to make a sketch of the
relevant parts of the tree on old-fashioned paper in order to not get
confused. When you're done with that, delete the candidates top down
with 'pkg_delete'.
If anyone else knows a more automated way, with the base system tools,
that is, I would certainly be interested, too.
Uwe
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