From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 21 22:51:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE801065676 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:51:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3EDE8FC14 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n9LMpL5A059016 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9LMpLvR099989 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9LMpLSQ099987 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20091021225121.GP29215@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20091021192839.GA12166@guilt.hydra> <62A5FC38-BD7F-4941-B760-ABF2C1700E73@mac.com> <20091021194038.GA46360@guilt.hydra> <354BF5E4-50E9-4230-A221-E505CB55E873@mac.com> <20091021213619.GA46898@guilt.hydra> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091021213619.GA46898@guilt.hydra> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.1, clamav-milter version 0.94.1 on email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:51:22 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Subject: Re: undo make deinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:51:23 -0000 In the last episode (Oct 21), Chad Perrin said: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 01:31:03PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > > And, of course, if you care about a system, then you would already be > > taking backups that you could restore from if you needed to... > > Of course, but I would hope there's an easier way to handle things than > restoring the whole system from backup. If you do have backups, you could restore /var/db/pkg/mypackage/+CONTENTS, then restore the files listed in that file. A bit more complicated than a full restore, but maybe quicker (depending on your backup system) and requiring less space. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com