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Date:      Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:29:51 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        epilogue@allstream.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_delete multimedia/mplayer doesn't work
Message-ID:  <20040624202951.GA95011@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040624162006.607614c0@localhost>
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:20:06PM -0400, epilogue@allstream.net wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:10:25 +0200
> jobse <jobse@u90.kks.kau.se> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 21:15, epilogue@allstream.net wrote:
> > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:50:50 +0200
> > > jobse <jobse@u90.kks.kau.se> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > hello
> > > > I do like this from /usr/ports.
> > > > pkg_delete multimedia/mplayer*, right.
> 
> though cd to the mplayer ports dir followed by make deinstall 'should'
> have solved the problem, i just noticed another detail worth mentioning.
> 
> you're using pkg_delete here.  i do not believe that it accepts shell
> globs (like * or ?).  you might have better luck with pkg_deinstall -- part
> of the tools installed by /sysutils/portupgrade, which i *highly*
> recommend.

pkg_delete does accept shell globs, but you have to quote them to make
sure that the shell does not expand them.
(I.e. one should do something like 
pkg_delete 'mplayer*'
to delete all all packages whose name start with mplayer.)


-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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