From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 23:42:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C2437B719 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id JAA13990; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:49:08 +0100 Message-ID: <3AAC7E40.A0E6AEC2@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:44:00 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Duraid Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Install, Upgrade and Deinstall??? References: <3AA9B7B8.F054AB0F@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Duraid schrieb: > > ok .. here is the senario: > i go and install gnome and then i decide that i want to install the > newest version of kde .. so i cvsup my ports and install kde.. now i > want to remove gnome from the ports using make deinstall but it doestn't > work because the gnome port is not the same used for the installation > and i can't go and delete the packages because there were lot's of > dependencies that i don't know (im talking in general). > so what is the best strategy to install update uninstall packages while > keeping a clean system that doesn't need to be reinstalled after six > month's to update it??? pkg_info -aI tells you the names off all installed packages. The gnome port tells you which packages belong to the gnome desktop. pkg_delete (the name you got from pkg_info, including the version numbers) deletes the old stuff. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message