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From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
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On 09/30/14 15:12, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> On 09/30/14 11:37, Warren Block wrote:
>>> On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>>
>>>> I will be following the same upgrade path, & as a guaranteed noob, 
>>>> I have a question about step 1 above. I noticed no 
>>>> clean/clear/remove entries in /usr/ports/Makefile, what do I do, 
>>>> just 'rm -fr' the offending directory ?
>>>
>>> No, never do that.  Let pkg manage those files, that is what it does.
>>>
>>> pkg delete -f linux_base-f10 linux-f10-\*
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm talking about the ports versions, particularly the flash plugin, 
>> which is handled by ports, not pkg ....
>
> pkg is responsible for installing and deinstalling ports (which are, 
> after they have been built, packages).
>
> If you mean directories like /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f10, that 
> is handled by whatever tool is used to update the ports tree, svn or 
> portsnap.
>


Hmmmmm .... OK .... Remember, *noob*, *noob*, *noob* !!!!


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