Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:51:03 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> 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>
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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
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