Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 11:30:57 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua> To: Eugene Panchenko <replicator@ngs.ru> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to remove ALL ports at once? Message-ID: <20020604112449.V33755-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> In-Reply-To: <web-24865106@intranet.ru>
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Greetings! On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Eugene Panchenko wrote: > Hallo, > > I have a small question, but it is important for me to know. I had been using my system for a long time, and without portupgrading my ports. So, right now I have three versions of gettext, different iconv libraries and utils (biconv and iconv), QT toolkits of several versions - all with overlapping files in +CONTENTS, so I cant just pkg_delete them. > > So my question is: can I do this: > > 1) Backup all I needed ~/.app_i_use/ directories > 2) Backup all I needed /usr/local/etc/* and /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* > 3) rm -fr /usr/local/* > 4) Backup mine /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config > 5) rm -fr /usr/X11R6/ > 6) rm -fr /var/db/pkg/* > > And start with clean, base system again, just after installing FreeBSD from the beginning?? > > This is very important for me to know how I can remove EVERYTHING that got on my hardrive from ports, and not to touch BASE system at all. > > Thank you all in advance. > > -- Eugene > > P/S - corry for x-posting, I dont know where this is more correct to send... > ____________________________________________________________ > Новое на НГС: > http://ngs.ru/icq - Web версия ICQ. > http://ngs.ru/chat - Ещё один чат. > ____________________________________________________________ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > afaik, this is possible, but some pkg's may add users/groups for their special purposes and some of them may add files into your var directory and/or made some other changes. In general this is networking utilities, RDBMS, mailers. E.g., qmail install itself into /var/qmail directory. So You may want to check this. I'm running FreeBSD-4.3 and X11R6 4.2.0, and XF86Config is stored in /etc/X11. Check this also. Then, as i said above, afaik, you may proceed in your way. But, and, imho, this is important, i don't remember, what was in /usr/local after system install, but before ports collection was used at all. There was directory structure but i can't b sure about plain files. With best wishes and always at your service, Stalker. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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