From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 12 15:24:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DFA37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:24:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from parv@worldnet.att.net) Received: from worldnet.att.net ([32.100.199.210]) by mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20010712222449.LKEJ3208.mtiwmhc21.worldnet.att.net@worldnet.att.net>; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:24:49 +0000 Received: by worldnet.att.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D897D50D5F; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:28:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:28:44 -0400 From: parv To: abram olson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mass uninstall all ports? Message-ID: <20010712182844.A26646@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: abram olson , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org References: <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com>; from dacia_icarus@yahoo.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG on Jul 12 18:19, i got this from abram... > I just updated from 4.3 release to 4.3 stable. My > entire system is built via ports. I want to make some > updates but I keep running into endless dependency > chains. I'm doing a > make clean in /usr/ports right now to see if that > helps. if you haven't updated your /usr/ports tree since you have installed software from there, the you need to do... # cd /usr/ports && make deinstall # inplace of 'clean' > > If it doesn't, is there a way to remove every package > that isn't part of the base system at one go? I'm > happy to start over especially since I've got much > better compiler optimizations now then when I first > built this system ;-) > > if you have updated your ports tree or added packages via pkg_add, then you may try this... # cd /var/db/pkg && pkg_delete -fd * ...to force (-f) removal & deletion of empty directories (-d). if you are running 4.3*, then you should be able to use the wildcard. -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message