From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 19 15:59:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF4C71065677 for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 15:59:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C308FC08 for ; Sat, 19 May 2012 15:59:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.local (209.Red-88-21-46.staticIP.rima-tde.net [88.21.46.209]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4JFx358091348 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 19 May 2012 16:59:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q4JFx358091348 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/q4JFx358091348; dkim=none (no signature); dkim-adsp=none X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host 209.Red-88-21-46.staticIP.rima-tde.net [88.21.46.209] claimed to be seedling.local Message-ID: <4FB7C336.8030709@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 17:58:46 +0200 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <1337434051474-5709999.post@n5.nabble.com> <4FB7A6F9.2090202@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig8D4E9917263F109296E213D0" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_DYNAMIC, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Beastie-Boy Subject: Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 15:59:16 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig8D4E9917263F109296E213D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 19/05/2012 16:07, Warren Block wrote: > The -f is probably not needed. I've done this rarely enough to not > recall, but -a should sort everything in the right order so dependencie= s > are uninstalled in order. I find that 'pkg_delete -af' gives more reliable results. Agreed, it should not be necessary but sometimes the dependency relationships between ports aren't generated quite right, and '-f' just lets pkg_delete do its thing without worrying about that -- not that dependency ordering matters at all when you're deleting everything in any case. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig8D4E9917263F109296E213D0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+3w0cACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwH2QCgj0curUiJ/oMUV7mievzUEqrJ p6AAoIAltXHGITsA+KSdQBUXCglBiRP3 =88Rz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8D4E9917263F109296E213D0--