From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 12 17:58:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (cust-P5-R10-109.POOL.ESR.SJO.wwc.com [206.112.121.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2334437B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:58:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6D17T001905; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200107130107.f6D17T001905@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Chris Johnson , "Ramoncito P. Puyat" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: difficulty uninstalling ports In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:44:42 PDT." <20010712174441.A52241@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:07:28 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 I recall someone asking on this or a related thread, how to uninstall all your ports. This is actually easier than it sounds; go to /var/db/pkg and say 'pkg_delete *', and keep doing it until the directory is empty. 8) Note that you may want to watch the error messages so that you can trim now-unused junk out of $PREFIX, but that's optional. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message