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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/delete perform.c 
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:21:01 PST, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:

> That is to say that it should be possible to say:
> 
>      pkg_info '*apache*'
>      pkg_delete 'emacs*'
> 
> etc.  And no, I don't have time to write the code which takes a regexp
> and iteratively matches it against directory components in
> /var/db/pkg, but I can certainly say that it should be easy enough to
> implement for anyone who DOES have the time.

Well, if pkg_delete stripped off the path to a package name, you
wouldn't need to do all this work.  You could just:

pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/emacs*

:-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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