Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 15:16:29 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Kevin Golding <kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patching systems using pkg_add Message-ID: <20011201151628.C8217@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20011201150658.A8217@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:06:59PM -0800 References: <kSMNnGB4mOC8Ew9Z@caomhin.demon.co.uk> <20011201150658.A8217@xor.obsecurity.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:06:59PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:31:20PM +0000, Kevin Golding wrote: > > > That leaves 2 options in my mind, firstly I could run pkg_delete before > > doing make world etc. or maybe I could just upgrade then manually delete > > the entries from /var/db/pkg > > Yep, both of those would work fine. Actually you'd want to pkg_delete to remove the backup dotfiles which are created by the package at install-time. I forget what the naming scheme is, but they're created in the same directory as the files the package is replacing. Or you could run a find job and remove them all by hand afterwards. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8CWQfWry0BWjoQKURAtBgAKCVjFWmUgYzM+sq1vQgI2HcicZZBwCfRXpk h69PL33jLHNl0EvpfluwmPA= =lrdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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