From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 29 9:59:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8416837B402 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:59:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id JAA18472; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:57:50 -0800 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda18470; Wed Nov 29 09:57:41 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eATHva601070; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:57:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdnZ1068; Wed Nov 29 09:57:32 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eATHvWv76704; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:57:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011291757.eATHvWv76704@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdN75337; Wed Nov 29 09:56:54 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: John Reynolds~ Cc: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: pkg_version In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:39:03 MST." <14885.8983.838973.11330@hip186.ch.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:56:54 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <14885.8983.838973.11330@hip186.ch.intel.com>, John Reynolds~ writes : > > [ On Tuesday, November 28, Szilveszter Adam wrote: ] > > > > When I am sure that all of them have actually changed, I usually work my > > way up on the dependency list from the bottom, eg I do X first. If this is > > just a patch, the order might not matter. > > > > I have never wondered much about this, because X is also a real pain to > > wait for on this system until it completes building so I schedule it first > > Is there some sort of "recursive 'make deinstall'" that will delete a package > and everything it depends on to run or build? > > i.e. if I wanted to nuke all of GNOME, if I do: > > cd /usr/ports/x11/gnome && make deinstall > > all that will do is delete the "port" for GNOME (which simply pulls in all th > e > other ports accordingly) but doesn't deinstall the components. How could one > remove all components of GNOME even down to the libraries (I know some > libraries would be needed by other ports)? > > I've done this before "manually" but it was certainly tedious. Take a look at the pkg_remove port. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message