Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 11:14:18 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "fbsd" <fbsd@wbs-inc.com>, "Faisal Gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com>, "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports information & removal Message-ID: <001d01c0ae34$27ae2330$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <000401c0ae4d$a67823a0$04036b83@terminal4> <01c101c0ae3b$87079b20$0200fea9@infowest.com>
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> 1 - When ports are installed they register in the package management system. > pkg_info will give you information about installed packages including ports. > I don't know how to distinguish which packages were installed as ports and > which as packages other than looking in /usr/ports/distfiles for the tarball > or in the work directory for that port in the ports tree, but these will not > tell you anything if the port has been cleaned with 'make clean' and 'make > distclean' after installation. At this point, it doesn't really matter. The package management system concerns itself with *what* was installed, not *how* it was installed. (Unlike early versions of SCO, which differentiated patches from packages from upgrades, and relied on the user to choose the right deinstall method, with potentially hazardous results if the wrong method was chosen..) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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