From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 13 9:59:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1847737B401; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 09:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6DGxdx112092; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:59:39 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010712215240A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010712174441.A52241@xor.obsecurity.org> <200107130107.f6D17T001905@mass.dis.org> <20010712215240A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:59:37 -0400 To: Jordan Hubbard , msmith@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: difficulty uninstalling ports Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, cjohnson@palomine.net, nitronarc@foresightone.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:52 PM -0700 7/12/01, Jordan Hubbard wrote: >And, as I'm sure others have pointed out by now, it's even easier >to do this with the -a flag. :) > >Of course, since pkg_delete also supports globbing now, one assumes >'pkg_delete *' from *any* directory would also work. watch out there. you wouldn't want your shell to do it's glob- expansion before pkg_delete even sees the parameter. So, you might want: pkg_delete '*' but probably not pkg_delete * when typing that in from "any directory". disclaimer: I assume that's how it would work, but I'm not going to try it myself to know for sure... :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message