Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:32:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Cc: fieber@indiana.edu, marquis@roble.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sshd Message-ID: <199809182332.QAA20213@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19980918185728.A248@mrmell> from Tim Vanderhoek at "Sep 18, 98 06:57:28 pm"
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Tim Vanderhoek writes: > > 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. Can you give an example where pkg_delete_im_gonna_upgrade_now != pkg_delete_for_ever ? What does pkg_delete_im_gonna_upgrade_now mean exactly? I would think pkg_delete_for_ever should be the default. > 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). All stuff that wants to go in /etc should go in /usr/local/etc and/or /usr/local/etc/rc.d instead. > A (probably) surprising number of ports will legitimately require > a read-write /. Then the port has a bug, IMHO (oh well, MHO never counted for much.. :-) -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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