From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 11 13:33:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB3916A4CE for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 13:33:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BE5F43D39 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 13:33:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@chvlva.adelphia.net) Received: from default.chvlva.adelphia.net ([69.160.64.49]) by mta9.adelphia.netESMTP <20040511203300.KENE26615.mta9.adelphia.net@default.chvlva.adelphia.net>; Tue, 11 May 2004 16:33:00 -0400 Received: by default.chvlva.adelphia.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3AFFA56F9; Tue, 11 May 2004 16:33:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:33:47 -0400 From: Parv To: Roop Nanuwa Message-ID: <20040511203347.GB93670@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Roop Nanuwa , Chiang Seng Chang , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40A03E56.1000909@ctzen.com> <75f3f705040510202240a5eae3@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <75f3f705040510202240a5eae3@mail.gmail.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Chiang Seng Chang Subject: Re: pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 20:33:02 -0000 in message <75f3f705040510202240a5eae3@mail.gmail.com>, wrote Roop Nanuwa thusly... > > On Mon, 10 May 2004 22:45:42 -0400, Chiang Seng Chang > wrote: > > > > What's the difference between pkg_deinstall and pkg_delete ? > > pkg_deinstall is a wrapper for pkg_delete that supports wildcards > and dependency recursion. Pkg_delete handles wildcards just fine. Or, is it just the partial port string, case sensitive, that it can handle? I do not have any ports to deinstall handy right now to test. > > If I use portinstall to install a port, which should I use to > > uninstall it ? > > If it's a single port that you want to delete on its own then > either will suffice. If you want to do a recursive uninstall or > delete multiple packages then you'll probably want to make use of > pkg_deinstall. Pkg_delete can delete ports given as a list just like it can delete single port; it, however, does not recurse like pkg_deinstall. I have not used pkg_deinstall to recursively ports much; I like pkg_delete better, more so in case of inconsistent state of installed dependencies. - Parv --