From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 24 2:34:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B2D237B411 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 02:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f8O9YI808830 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:04:18 +0930 (CST) Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified) by dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:02:44 +0930 Received: from salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au (salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.9]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id SAA06713 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:59:07 +0930 (CST) Received: from fang.dsto.defence.gov.au ([131.185.2.5]) by salex001.dsto.defence.gov.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id TQL8YTYH; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:59:03 +0930 Received: from dsto.defence.gov.au (fuzz.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.75.229]) by fang.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id SAA02964 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:59:06 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <3BAEFCE4.E99DC89E@dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:59:08 +0930 From: "Thyer, Matthew" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mass uninstall all ports? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Forgive me if this solution was not mentioned. # cd /var/db/pkg # pkg_delete * Now that pkg_delete can delete things in the right order, this is the easiest way to mass delete ports. If you only want to kill gnome ports then: # cd /var/db/pkg # pkg_delete gnome* (but you'll still have to manually delete some stuff and repeat). -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Science Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Edinburgh PO Box 1500 Edinburgh South Australia 5111 IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message