From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 6 17:19:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 500A116A4CE for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:19:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCCC943D1D for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:19:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from localhost.invalid (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i271J9fH026300; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:19:09 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 17:19:22 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <404A5BB5.7070908@ste-land.com> In-Reply-To: <404A5BB5.7070908@ste-land.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403061719.22608.kstewart@owt.com> cc: "Shaun T. Erickson" Subject: Re: 'pkg_delete port' vs 'cd /usr/ports/port;make deinstall' X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 01:19:24 -0000 On Saturday 06 March 2004 03:16 pm, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > 'pkg_delete port' vs 'cd /usr/ports/port;make deinstall' > > What's the difference between these? > You can do a wild card delete using something like pkg_delete 'port*' and not have to use the full version number. You can do this in fewer steps than learning the path to the port and cd'ing in. Once you have used either method, I don't think you can tell how you did it :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html