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Date:      Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:16:26 -0600
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/local question
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0801121516w5163d6feq51e123774be5117a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d356c5630801121416t26e92212gf2791a0911369240@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <d356c5630801121416t26e92212gf2791a0911369240@mail.gmail.com>

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On 12/01/2008, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just executed 'pkg_delete -a' to delete all packages and do a clean
> reinstall.  (World and kernel were updated this morning.)
>
> Pkg_delete was unable to completely remove certain files and directories
> under /usr/local.  Since I have backed-up all user data under /usr/local
> (web pages and postgresql databases) deleted all packages, is it safe to
> delete everything that remains under /usr/local?  I have an archived copy of
> /usr/local/etc for reference during reinstallation.
>

Generally, yes(1).  I think I would still give a cursory
glance at all the files that pkg_delete left:

% find /usr/local/ -type f | less

Otherwise, sail on.

(1) in that the base install of FreeBSD does not
touch /usr/local and nothing in /usr/local should
prevent the running of basic system utilities.

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