From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 2 10: 5:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1FB137B627 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 2000 10:05:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartequi@inwind.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (212.141.78.213) by relay2.inwind.it; 2 Jul 2000 19:05:18 +0200 From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 18:07:30 GMT Message-ID: <20000702.18073000@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: make deinstall? To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: generic@unitedtamers.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000702181831.A32532@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <395F2C3F.CCDAB6E1@unitedtamers.com> <20000702.13074800@bartequi.ottodomain.org> <20000702181831.A32532@physics.iisc.ernet.in> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > To me, make deinstall seems to work if the ports collection (and that > specific port) hasn't been updated in the meantime. Quite right.=20 > Otherwise, look into the /var/db/pkg directory for your program, > and type pkg_delete > That seems to work generally. I've heard that make deinstall actually= > calls pkg_delete. > Rahul. Or use 'pkg_info [| grep ]' to find the package(s);=20 also, the "-f" (ie force) flag of pkg_delete may be necessary.=20 My "old" letter is found in the -questions archives: "Updating=20 software from the ports-collection". As to 'make deinstall' calling "pkg_delete -f" (which command affects=20 the updated port/package), there was yet another thread few months=20 ago, in which (wait for it) I was directly involved :-) Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message