From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 21:22:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2673D1505E for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:22:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04407; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:44:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:44:23 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux package mgmt in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > I'm thinking of installing a free office suite for linux. The .tgz file > installs directly to bin, usr, doc, share, etc. Is there any easy way to > keep track of this so it can be uninstalled later? This isn't an RPM > obviously, nor is it a port that can be removed with pkg_delete. tar tzf file.tgz > pkg_list --later-- sh -c 'while read i ; do rm $i ; done' < pkg_list ? -Alfred (who's sure there's a better way) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message