Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:58:14 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Desktop rebuild Message-ID: <d7195cff0704271558k48b97014v78023f322e704561@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d5eb95fc0704271034h5286b129i7c3c8d3babb65f94@mail.gmail.com> References: <d5eb95fc0704271034h5286b129i7c3c8d3babb65f94@mail.gmail.com>
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On 27/04/07, Derrick Ryalls <ryallsd@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a laptop that I am currently updating world to the latest from > the v6 branch, once that is done I want to completely start fresh with > the GUI. Right now I have gnome in a mostly working state, a mostly > out of date KDE and a bunch of other random crud I have installed over > the last 16 months or so. Instead of trying to use portupgrade and > have it fail out/fix/restart, I was thinking life would be easier if I > just removed anything graphical and start that from scratch. This way > all my settings/data remain intact and I can just do a pkg install the > new stuff. > > Is anyone aware of a quick/safe way of blowing away nearly all > installed apps as such to start from near scratch. I do use bash and > probably a couple other non-GUI installs, so I didn't necessarily want > to kill _all_ installed ports/pkgs but I might be willing to do that > if needed. > > Any thought on the best way to approach this? The best method I have come up with is to first gather a list of leaf packages with ports-mgmt/portmaster: $ portmaster -l and then (assuming you have ports-mgmt/portupgrade installed): $ pkg_deinstall -r <leaf pkg names> or $ pkg_delete -r <leaf pkg names> ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves is a bit overly thorough (and underly[1] conservative) for my tastes, but may be more your style. This shouldn't delete anything required by the stuff you want to keep and should clean out most of the kipple. Multiple runs are suggested and deleting root packages (as listed under portmaster -l) most likely won't harm anything (though some of them may be reinstalled when you upgrade). pkg_deinstall has the advantage of being able to issue $ pkg_deinstall -Rr kde* , which will delete anything requiring kde and required by kde (at least that is not required by some other package), and the disadvantage of requiring that both perl and ruby be installed. [1] May not be an honistically truthifiable word. -- --
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