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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