Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:27:14 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting packages - a newbie question Message-ID: <19990418192714.B252@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <19990418134728.A11854@ipass.net>; from Randall Hopper on Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 01:47:28PM -0400 References: <19990418134728.A11854@ipass.net>
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On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 01:47:28PM -0400, Randall Hopper wrote:
> All right, so I'm not a newbie, but I've been wondering about this for a while.
>
> To delete a package, you can't just do:
>
> > pkg_delete xcoloredit
>
> you have to know the specific version even if its the only one installed.
> So I've been using:
>
> > pkg_info -Ia | grep xcoloredit
> xcoloredit-1.2 Find colour values by graphical colour mixing
> > pkg_delete xcoloredit-1.2
>
> wishing for the rpm-like feature where if there's only one version, then:
>
> > pkg_delete xcoloredit
>
> would do the job.
>
> Is there some option permutation of pkg_delete to get the latter form to
> work?
>
> If not, I think this would be a handy feature.
>
> Yeah I know, I could just cook a pkg_delete wrapper script to do this, but
Why not extend what you already do?
pkg_delete `pkg_info -Ia | grep coloredit | awk '{print $1}'`
> as commonplace as this operation would seem to be, I wonder how many folks
> would find this useful as standard behavior.
>
What about libraries for instance? You may have several different
versions. I've just re-built my system from scratch, but before I
had several versions of the png, tiff, and jpeg pacakges. All of
them were required by various othere packages.
> Randall
>
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