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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:06:46 +0100
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
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Subject: Re: pkg_delete vs make deinstall
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Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
> 
> -On [19991122 14:30], Jonathon McKitrick (jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) wrote:
> >What is the difference?  I have  a guess: make deinstall only works if
> >there is a deinstall target in the makefile, while pkg_delete will simply
> >erase all the files in the installation and remove it from the database,
> >correct?

> make deinstall simply uses pkg/PLIST to remove all the files and
> directories needed for the program.
> 
> pkg_delete gets this info from /var/db/pkg/portname/+CONTENTS
> 
> So there is a difference in how the two work.

From /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:

.if !target(deinstall)
deinstall:
	@${ECHO_MSG} "===>  Deinstalling for ${PKGNAME}"
	@${PKG_DELETE} -f ${PKGNAME}
	@${RM} -f ${INSTALL_COOKIE} ${PACKAGE_COOKIE}
.endif

The *default* behaviour of 'make deinstall' is to use pkg_delete...

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