Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 08:06:50 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: abram olson <dacia_icarus@yahoo.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mass uninstall all ports? Message-ID: <200107151507.f6FF7J906933@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Jul 2001 00:21:09 PDT." <20010715072109.16767.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com>
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In message <20010715072109.16767.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com>, abram olson wr ites: > No hidden question. I really did want to start from > scratch and build my entire system a new. Probably > seems weird but that's what I wanted to do. > > I had previously gone sort of willy-nilly through the > ports and installed (eg tried) anything and everything > that looked even sort of interesting and I wanted to > remove all of those in one fell sweep. > > I am looking forward to building every single part of > my system from source. What can I say for myself? > I've got a lot of fre time on my hands ;-) I'm confused. Why not "pkg_info | lpr" and literally start from scratch then? You could use "pkg_remove -n" to print out port dependencies and only install the top level ports, which will drag in any dependent ports for you, however this will only install the very basic ports required by other ports, e.g. if you prefer XFree86-4.1.0 instead of 3.3.6 you will have to either replace the port you don't want with the one you want or make sure that ports that are not referenced by other ports, e.g. XFree86-4, are pre-installed by yourself before you do any mass port install as mapped out by yourself on paper using "pkg_remove -n". Watching this discussion I've been toying around with the idea of creating a pkg_tree application, which would print out port dependencies. However I won't entertain starting that project until my new Tripwire 2.3.1 port is complete, which is currently being tested in parallel with Tripwire 1.3.1, which I think should be fully tested and ready for inclusion in our ports collection in about 2-4 weeks from now. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/Alpha 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
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