From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 12 15:53:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bmi.net (smtp.bmi.net [204.57.191.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FB037B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net) Received: from smtp.bmi.net (dsl-154.bmi.net [207.173.60.230]) by smtp.bmi.net (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA32601; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:47:57 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:48:04 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper To: abram olson Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mass uninstall all ports? Message-ID: <20010712154804.A33725@johncoop> Disposition-Notification-To: John Merryweather Cooper References: <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20010712220512.15446.qmail@web13505.mail.yahoo.com>; from dacia_icarus@yahoo.com on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 15:05:12 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.4 Lines: 37 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 2001.07.12 15:05 abram olson wrote: > 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 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 ;-) > > Thanks folks. > > > Abe > > ===== > Jesus saves. > Allah forgives, > Cthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich. > ------------------------------------------ > See my digital art at: > > http://www.foramenmagnum.net/images.html > > __________________________________________________ Reading man pkg_delete, your solution is: #pkg_delete -a I've actually done this, and it works. jmc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message