From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 13 18:53:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D90D37B403 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:53:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f6E1rbH66192; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:53:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:53:37 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: difficulty uninstalling ports Message-ID: <20010713205337.I84770@futuresouth.com> References: <200107130107.f6D17T001905@mass.dis.org> <20010712215240A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010713002151.B84770@futuresouth.com> <20010713105733I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010713105733I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:57:33AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 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 On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:57:33AM -0700, a little birdie told me that Jordan Hubbard remarked > Boy, life would be easier if folks would just read the man pages. :-) > > -G Do not try to expand shell glob patterns in the pkg-name when > selecting packages to be deleted (by default pkg_delete automati- > cally expands shell glob patterns in the pkg-name). Whoo, and I get smacked in the face! Who needs to read manpages, I know how it worked N months ago, why would it be any different now? ;-) -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message