Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:32:48 -0300 (ART) From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar> To: Dave Chapman <dave.chapman@dsl.pipex.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports system broken Message-ID: <20021013162505.T3949-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> In-Reply-To: <20021013150207.2aca0a45.dave.chapman@dsl.pipex.com>
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On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Dave Chapman wrote: > Hi, > > I've managed to completely screw up my ports collection, to the extent that > I can't install anything now (don't want to get into how I achieved this, > too painful/embarassing :-)) Instead of removing /usr/local by hand, did you try to pkg_delete the ports? If you didn't screw /var/db, you can get the list of the installed ports First, do a 'ls /var/db/pkg' to get a list of the installed packages then, you can deinstall them whit the following script: #!/bin/sh for var in `ls /var/db/pkg` do pkg_delete -f $var done Hope this helps. Fer > > Does this sound like it may work, or have I overlooked some glaringly > obvious flaw in my plan? It would be really good to find a solution other > than a complete reinstall, as the base system (cvsup'd to 4.7 a couple of > days ago) is working really well... > > Regards, > Dave > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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