Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:25:34 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Attos <attos.janus@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Best way to uninstall X Message-ID: <201104080925.34202.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimSmVL_MQj2J9yCRy4z8mXKgdKeDQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTimSmVL_MQj2J9yCRy4z8mXKgdKeDQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Thursday 07 April 2011 23:59:04 Attos wrote: > Hello all, > > What is the best way to uninstall X and all the applications that run under > X? just redirect the outout if pkg_info into a file and edit it is my way of doing things like this. I basically create with this a script which deletes all ports I do not want to pull through an upgrade from X.y to Y.x. It will take some time to edit it but I did not find a better way excpet of pkg_delete -a which deletes all ports. This can be dangerous if you have only remote access to the machine depending on how you access the machine. Erich
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