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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:48:04 -0700
From:      John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
To:        abram olson <dacia_icarus@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mass uninstall all ports?
Message-ID:  <20010712154804.A33725@johncoop>
In-Reply-To: <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com>; from dacia_icarus@yahoo.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 15:05:12 -0700
References:  <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com>

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On 2001.07.12 15:05 abram olson wrote:
> 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 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 ;-)
> 
> Thanks folks.
> 
> 
> Abe
> 
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Reading man pkg_delete, your solution is:

#pkg_delete -a

I've actually done this, and it works.

jmc


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