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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:48:50 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: which is the better way...?
Message-ID:  <20091202124850.6774dba3.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20091202110150.180c845e@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net>
References:  <20091202071508.GA1869@thought.org> <20091202110150.180c845e@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net>

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On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:01:50 +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.or=
g> wrote:
> Le Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:15:11 -0800,
> Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> a =E9crit :
> =20
> > it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and
> > /bin/rm -r it from there?  this time i'll make a not of the preferred
> > way of cleaning out the old stuff..
>=20
> You should use pkg_delete to remove an installed port.
> It removes the program, the doc, ..., but also entries in the pakage
> database (/var/db/pkg/).

Anbd if there's still stuff in the installed ports directory
left over - pkg_delete will inform you about that - you can
still use rm -r for a complete delete; anyway, pkg_delete
should be the first step. If you use portupgrade, you should
additionally run "pkgdb -aF" after using pkg_delete, so its
package database keeps being up to date.


--=20
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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