From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 12 23:47:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from goku.branchmedia.com (goku.branchmedia.com [216.129.214.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F31B837B403; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:47:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mitayai@dreaming.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by goku.branchmedia.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6D6lUE15872; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 02:47:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mitayai@dreaming.org) Received: from shadow (shadow.branchmedia.com [216.129.214.38]) by goku.branchmedia.com (8.11.4/8.11.4av) with SMTP id f6D6lPi15864; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 02:47:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mitayai@dreaming.org) From: "Mit Rowe" To: "Matthew D. Fuller" , "Jordan Hubbard" Cc: , , , , Subject: RE: difficulty uninstalling ports Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 02:46:58 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20010713002151.B84770@futuresouth.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 to defeat my tcsh globbing, i just recently used to upgrade my entire ports tree: portsupgrade -Rru \* maybe pkg_delete works similarly. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Matthew D. Fuller > Sent: July 13, 2001 01:22 AM > To: Jordan Hubbard > Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG; kris@obsecurity.org; cjohnson@palomine.net; > nitronarc@foresightone.com; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: difficulty uninstalling ports > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 09:52:40PM -0700, a little birdie told me > that Jordan Hubbard remarked > > And, as I'm sure others have pointed out by now, it's even easier > > to do this with the -a flag. :) > > > > Of course, since pkg_delete also supports globbing now, one assumes > > 'pkg_delete *' from *any* directory would also work. > > pkg_delete supports globbing? > Last I saw (and submitted patches for, as I recall) the shell does all > the globbing, pkg_delete is just smart enough to do some trimming on > absolute paths to find the package name. > > > > -- > Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net > Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com > Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ > > "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I > haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message