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From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>
To: Alexandre <axelbsd@ymail.com>
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Subject: Re: Portmaster 3.1 upgrade
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On Sun 2010-10-31 17:57:52 UTC+0100, Alexandre (axelbsd@ymail.com) wrote:

> I read in /usr/ports/UPGRADING the instructions to properly upgrade
> PORTMASTER 3.1.
> It is written to do :
> 
> # pkg_delete -f portmaster*
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster && make clean && make install clean
> 
> But when I type the first one, I got the message :
> pkg_delete: No match.

Your shell is trying to do pathname globbing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)

Instead, use:

pkg_delete -f 'portmaster*'

or:

pkg_delete -f portmaster\*

UPDATING should probably be amended upstream to correct this...

Regards
Andrew