From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 24 20:29:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C759E16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:29:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av15-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (av15-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA3643D1F for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:29:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av15-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id AD4E037E4E; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:29:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.180]) by av15-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F48C37E42 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:29:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp4-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 23A4F37E43 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:29:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 98037 invoked by uid 1001); 24 Jun 2004 20:29:51 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:29:51 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: epilogue@allstream.net Message-ID: <20040624202951.GA95011@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: epilogue@allstream.net, jobse@yapost.com, jobse@u90.kks.kau.se, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1088099449.25991.8.camel@hl63n2fls22o18.bredband.comhem.se> <20040624151531.5e14d95d@localhost> <1088107825.8205.9.camel@hl63n2fls22o18.bredband.comhem.se> <20040624162006.607614c0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040624162006.607614c0@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: jobse@yapost.com cc: jobse@u90.kks.kau.se cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_delete multimedia/mplayer doesn't work X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:29:59 -0000 On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:20:06PM -0400, epilogue@allstream.net wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:10:25 +0200 > jobse wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 21:15, epilogue@allstream.net wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:50:50 +0200 > > > jobse wrote: > > > > > > > hello > > > > I do like this from /usr/ports. > > > > pkg_delete multimedia/mplayer*, right. > > though cd to the mplayer ports dir followed by make deinstall 'should' > have solved the problem, i just noticed another detail worth mentioning. > > you're using pkg_delete here. i do not believe that it accepts shell > globs (like * or ?). you might have better luck with pkg_deinstall -- part > of the tools installed by /sysutils/portupgrade, which i *highly* > recommend. pkg_delete does accept shell globs, but you have to quote them to make sure that the shell does not expand them. (I.e. one should do something like pkg_delete 'mplayer*' to delete all all packages whose name start with mplayer.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se