Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 02:49:47 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=) To: Nik.Clayton@brunel.ac.uk Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Another sup site? Removing ports? Message-ID: <199504160949.CAA26667@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <780.9504160935@spare-240.brunel.ac.uk> (message from Nik Clayton on Sun, 16 Apr 1995 10:35:25 %2B0100 (BST))
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Nik says: * o If I've done * * % make * % make install * * on a port, is there a simple way of uninstalling it? I'd have * thought so, but looking at the targets in bsd.port.mk, I don't think * so, and the only way to do this would be * * % make * % make package * % pkg_add 'package' * * and then I can do the required 'pkg_delete' at some later time. Or * am I missing something fundamental? * * Apart from these concerns, it's all going swimmingly. So, praise once * more for the people of the FreeBSD team. I should say you have an excellent viewpoint, and hit the nail right on the head where we have been scratching our heads for years. Fortunately, rumor is that our custom ferret hacker Jordan is going to fix this problem in a few days by adding a fake-register flag to pkg_add, which will be called from bsd.port.mk when you do "make install". This way, you can pkg_delete it without actually building a package. Satoshi
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