Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:26:19 -0600 (CST) From: "Doug Poland" <dpoland@execpc.com> To: mavetju@chello.nl (Edwin Groothuis) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and packages Message-ID: <200101261926.NAA26210@earth.execpc.com> In-Reply-To: <20010126185852.B62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> from "Edwin Groothuis" at Jan 26, 1 06:58:52 pm
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Edwin Groothuis said... > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:50:21AM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > > > > > > If I want to remove it, would I do a "pkg_delete" or > > > > "make deinstall"? > > > > > > That depends. If you have cvsup-t the ports-tree you often see that > > > the version in the ports-tree is not the one you have installed. > > > In that case you can only remove it with pkg_delete. If it is still > > > the same version you can delete it with make deinstall. > > > > > > If you look in the source of the makefiles in the ports-directory > > > (/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk) and search for ^deinstall, you will > > > see that it does nothing more that calling pkg_delete... > > > > > I'm currently not updating ports with cvsup so I can do either. > > Does a pkg_delete do a "make clean" as well? > > No, "pkg_delete" only throws away the installed files, as does > "make deinstall" (only "make deinstall" should be called from the > proper directory while "pkg_delete" works everywhere). "make clean" > removes the source from the ports-directories, it does nothing with > installed ports. > Thanks... Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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