From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 12 22:51:08 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB1755A for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:51:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B1B8FC0C for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:51:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 16so4519630wgi.31 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:51:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=j1gLTv7026KjZYiqGElfANMHvr5+ovXDI0pLBIsbH3o=; b=pkw9fV4eF+XJap14NCIPh2998/XTdRHHzbUqt/ulH60FX5FWUXIXKbAgdu5jZj/Lra PeaoUlYP9FrdweVNkNBKir2yNOMaUr7fBZPpjzYS9W2b8J3D+XsmAKVnKZhrXeqIk0eo 1SZ3o8bFaIDmp+ZFrX+82sIEATjTiR2mshKQI4ElwyU5QjPiw96CICF1wWC0EUDEu1Hc zhLuP4gsR6P6/iuTwooW8ksMANXK5lP7hMzAGT2HCdwmyydK9dsazpuTBJrXN5k/STfw sf/nabDX9p+jxBsakxZ/Q5TCEJl8F3xuCCa8uy5muPxayCfZFeWe/Ra0w1/hTjl9T7RU Xf0A== Received: by 10.180.95.201 with SMTP id dm9mr17270897wib.3.1352760665991; Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:51:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id az2sm16452282wib.7.2012.11.12.14.51.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:51:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:51:03 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports: deinstall-all Message-ID: <20121112225103.6d78b2a1@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <50A16467.6090406@dreamchaser.org> References: <50A16467.6090406@dreamchaser.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:51:08 -0000 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:04:39 -0700 Gary Aitken wrote: > Something pretty basic somewhere that I'm missing... > > "man ports" indicates the target "deinstall-all" will remove all > installed ports. That's not what the man page says. > yet the target doesn't seem to exist: > > #cd /usr/ports > #make deinstall-all > make: don't know how to make deinstall-all. stop. That's not what deinstall-all does, AFAIK it's a more thorough version of deinstall that will remove packages installed under different prefixes. > This was prompted by the following when attempting to install emacs: > > ===> Checking if devel/pkgconf already installed > ===> An older version of devel/pkgconf is already installed > (pkg-config-0.25_1) >... > > Where to go from here? > Why was pkgconf still installed? > There are other packages dependent on it... is that the reason? > If so, why no warning / info when I do the make deinstall? > Probably due to skipping UPDATING 20120726