From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 26 10:30:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [80.65.205.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 118CA37B400 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:30:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rambo.simx.org (roadrunner [192.168.0.5]) by rambo.simx.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5QHTvSa039155; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:29:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3D19F98F.7060704@rambo.simx.org> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:27:43 +0200 From: Rocky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020622 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kramer Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Linux or Solaris References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Kramer wrote: >On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, David Kramer wrote: >> >> >> >>>I have to go through the collection of ports and make sure everything I >>>need is there, but I'm sure it is. BTW, is there a way to check what >>>software is installed on your box? Is there an automated way of >>>uninstalling ports? I couldn't find this info on freebsd.org. >>> >>> >>Take a closer look at pkg_info, pkg_delete and pkg_add. You can also >> >> > >I thought ports and packages were two different things. But if packages >can me managed as explained above, and ports can be managed as explained >below, then my concerns are covered. > > > >>delete an installed port by going to /usr/ports/*category*/*app*/, >>then make deinstall. >> >> > >THANK YOU!!!! This was another thread on the BLU mailing list recently. >I said that if Makefiles had a "make uninstall" to undo "make install", I >would be much more likely to use them than RPM's, as I am opposed to >management tools that track their information in databases that >require a special application to view and change, instead of text files, >which can be managed any way one wants. > >Do most ports have a "make deinstall" option? > > AFAIK, all ports have a "make deinstall". Other make targets that you could try in the ports three includes, but are not limited to; fetch, configure, clean, distclean, reinstall, or just simply "make" without target. Most of them are self explainatory, unless maybe clean and distclean. Basically, make clean removes leftovers from previous builds or maybe a failed compile, while distclean erases the .tgz that are downloaded and stored in /usr/ports/distclean. And just to clearify my previous wish to kill the thread: I was reffering to the "long live the penguin" posts that was more of a "linux rulez, bsd sucks" or vice versa discussion. As long as it contains questions, facts or comments on BSD I dont mind it at all. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message