Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 15:01:02 -0400 From: Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal@dataix.net> To: Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@freebsd.org> Cc: Marcin Wisnicki <mwisnicki+freebsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to uninstall pkgng Message-ID: <20120609190102.GC50954@DataIX.net> In-Reply-To: <4FD396A3.3070404@freebsd.org> References: <jr025r$6b2$1@dough.gmane.org> <4FD38FEB.5000402@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20120609182343.GB50954@DataIX.net> <4FD396A3.3070404@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:32:03PM +0200, Julien Laffaye wrote: > On 6/9/2012 8:23 PM, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 07:03:23PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 09/06/2012 18:46, Marcin Wisnicki wrote: > >>> I've made a mistake of installing pkgng on 9.0-amd64 but since there is no > >>> up-to-date repository I want to remove it. > >>> > >>> What would be the correct procedure to achieve that ? > >>> > >>> Invoking `pkg delete -a` still leaves some files including /usr/sbin/pkg. > >> Not easy. You'ld have to delete the pkg port, undo any additional > >> configuration you may have added to eg. /etc/make.conf (ie. remove > >> WITH_PKGNG settings), undo any patches to portmaster (if you're using > >> that) and then reinstall all your ports using the original package tools > >> to rebuild /var/db/pkg/ contents. > >> > >> /usr/sbin/pkg is part of base nowadays. You don't want to delete that. > >> > > When was pkgng made part of base ? > The bootstrap binary is in base, not pkgng. > > > > /usr/sbin/pkg would be from pkgng if you are using it to delete itself > > then the problem you are experiencing is the file is busy at the time of > > deletion. Try pkg_delete instead ? > > > Wrong, this is the bootstrap binary. The pkg binary is in LOCALBASE. Missed that. This is pretty confusing as stable/8 & releng/9 does not have a pkg while head and stable/9 do. -- - (2^(N-1))
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