Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:47:01 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Desktop rebuild Message-ID: <d5eb95fc0704301147y34773055y78c122747b196eee@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0704271558k48b97014v78023f322e704561@mail.gmail.com> References: <d5eb95fc0704271034h5286b129i7c3c8d3babb65f94@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0704271558k48b97014v78023f322e704561@mail.gmail.com>
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On 4/27/07, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 out of date KDE and a bunch of other random crud I have installed over 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. > I ended up just creating a new user with a /bin/sh shell, doing a pkg_delete -a and reinstalling the apps. I was very impressed with how quickly pkg_add -r xorg and such (from the handbook) ran and got me back to a working desktop. Just need to selectively add any app I really want reinstalled now. Though I did run into an issue with portupgrade and needed to delete its database, per the entry in UPDATING.
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