Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:57:28 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: marquis@roble.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd Message-ID: <19980918185728.A248@mrmell> In-Reply-To: <199809140706.AAA16521@bubba.whistle.com>; from Archie Cobbs on Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 12:06:05AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809122252530.2501-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> <199809140706.AAA16521@bubba.whistle.com>
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On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 12:06:05AM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > If someone was interested, it would be easy to write a script > that checks all the ports: Yes and no. :) Ports are not necessarily supposed to remove everything they install. What's needed (and has been needed for a long time) is to allow the user to choose between "pkg_delete_for_ever" and "pkg_delete_im_gonna_upgrade_now" (where there upgrading is the most commen reason for desiring such as deinstall, but not the only one). Currently all deinstalls are of the "pkg_delete_im_gonna_upgrade_now" type. To be even more ambitious, you should consider comparing /etc before and after, too. Maybe throw-in a comparison of /etc between install and deinstall, too. Some ports modify things in there that they should not (mgetty+sendfax bit me last time I installed it, for example). Without first implementing a "pkg_delete_for_ever", though, you'll get a lot of noise. > - mount / and /usr read-only [...] > - cycle through every port and: A (probably) surprising number of ports will legitimately require a read-write /. -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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