Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:16:16 -0400 From: Jean-Simon <jsimon@cam.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Subject: Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? Message-ID: <146c01c5444b$1937cb10$1300a8c0@peon> References: <20050412213328.GC1953@lava.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417185631.05349ee0@localhost> <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com> <426310A0.7060906@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417202031.0490ad98@localhost> <4263280B.3010601@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418020749.05761298@localhost> <002b01c5442c$d4a1caf0$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418094749.057187f0@localhost> <007c01c5442f$c9a36ed0$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418105722.05c08490@localhost> <011701c5443a$fbdfb060$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418112233.059694d0@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote: > Yes, this works most of the time. But, as mentioned above, you can be > surprised when you update your ports and suddenly find that (a) you > can't even deinstall because of changes to a port, or (b) you go back > to a port to compile it with different options and find that there's > a whole new version there that won't compile for some reason. (This > happened to me just last week on an older system. After the cvsup, > the master Makefile for the ports collection was no longer compatible > with the version of "make" on the system, so I couldn't do ANYTHING > with ANY port.) Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you can simply use "pkg_delete $package_name" instead of going in '/usr/ports/whatever' and run "make deinstall". Just look in '/var/db/pkg' to see if the package infos are there. I think most ports build a package and then install it when you run "make install" so you can remove them with the "pkg_delete" tool even if the sources in '/usr/ports' were updated. Regards, Jean-Simon Durand Technical specialist jsimon@cam.org 514-924-1373
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