From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 14 18:18:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-181.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8DEF37B401 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9F3FF66DD9; Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 18:18:36 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mass uninstall all ports? Message-ID: <20010714181836.A88702@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> <20010712152205.A20322@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010713001223.B48618@moo.holy.cow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="17pEHd4RhPHOinZp" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010713001223.B48618@moo.holy.cow>; from parv_@yahoo.com on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:12:23AM -0400 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 --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:12:23AM -0400, parv wrote: > on Jul 12 18:29, i got this from Kris... > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0700, 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=20 > >=20 > > Look into portupgrade in the ports collection, which does a superb job > > of upgrading ports and dependencies in the correct order. > >=20 > > Kris >=20 > but that wouldn't take care of the original question posed -- how to=20 > deinstall/remove all the ports -- since portupgrade is itself, well, a > port... would it, kris? The hidden question was being asked is "I want to upgrade my installed ports, and one way I could do that is by removing everything and starting from scratch." That's one way, but not necessarily the best way. Kris --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE7UO9rWry0BWjoQKURAvMKAJjKY3KgfJjyy6KuIugGDXrAU9uyAJ0aOh3B aAHQuq+f9uDrATKC1P+mPA== =LIvC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message