Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:28:44 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: abram olson <dacia_icarus@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mass uninstall all ports? Message-ID: <20010712182844.A26646@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com>; from dacia_icarus@yahoo.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0700 References: <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com>
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on Jul 12 18:19, i got this from abram... > I just updated from 4.3 release to 4.3 stable. My > entire system is built via ports. I want to make some > updates but I keep running into endless dependency > chains. I'm doing a > make clean in /usr/ports right now to see if that > helps. if you haven't updated your /usr/ports tree since you have installed software from there, the you need to do... # cd /usr/ports && make deinstall # inplace of 'clean' > > If it doesn't, is there a way to remove every package > that isn't part of the base system at one go? I'm > happy to start over especially since I've got much > better compiler optimizations now then when I first > built this system ;-) > > if you have updated your ports tree or added packages via pkg_add, then you may try this... # cd /var/db/pkg && pkg_delete -fd * ...to force (-f) removal & deletion of empty directories (-d). if you are running 4.3*, then you should be able to use the wildcard. -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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