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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:47:34 +0200
From:      Tilman Linneweh <tilman@arved.de>
To:        Eugene Panchenko <replicator@ngs.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to remove ALL ports at once?
Message-ID:  <20020604144734.A84999@huckfinn.arved.de>
In-Reply-To: <web-24865106@intranet.ru>
References:  <web-24865106@intranet.ru>

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In arved.freebsd.ports, you wrote:
> 
> 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.

Have you tried pkgdb -F (I think it is part of sysutils/portupgrade). It
will detect duplicate versions of installed pkges and remove the older
one without removing the files of the newer one.

regards
arved

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