Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 21:25:20 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, "Michael G." <mikegoe@ibm.net>, David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting packages - a newbie question Message-ID: <19990418212520.A24218@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <19990418192714.B252@marder-1>; from Mark Ovens on Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 07:27:14PM %2B0100 References: <marko@uk.radan.com> <199904190005.TAA41276@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990418134728.A11854@ipass.net> <99041817400401.00341@Nikki.ibm.net> <19990418134728.A11854@ipass.net> <19990418192714.B252@marder-1>
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Thanks for the suggestions. I realize I could write my own custom
wrapper script or alias to do this, as I mentioned, or do it by hand each
time. But I thought I'd troll the waters and see if there was interest in
this being the default behavior. It would make the package commands just a
little more accessible to new users.
95% of the time when I delete a package, there's only one version and I
know the name, but I don't have any idea what the version is. I just want
to say "delete gv" and that's it. Completely unambiguous.
But to Marks' point, yes when you have multiple versions of a tool
installed, pkg_delete should report an error and list the packages matching
your request ("not" delete them all). Even here, this behavior is a plus
because the full package names are right there on your terminal. You don't
have to go rooting around in /var/db/pkg or pkg_info -Ia listings to find
out what you need to delete the package version you're interested in.
Here's a shell snippet that does what I want:
( cd /var/db/pkg ; /bin/ls -1d mpeg_encode* ) | tr '\012' ' ' | /bin/sh -c 'read pkg1 junk ; if [ -z "junk"]; then echo ERROR: Multiple Matches ; echo $pkg1 $junk; else pkg_delete $pkg1; fi'
I have no idea how to pack this into a tcsh alias. Besides it's at
critical mass to make a wrapper script out of it anyway -- or just add to
pkg_delete's internal behavior (which is what I'm asking for :-).
Thanks,
Randall
|Randall Hopper:
|> To delete a package, you can't just do:
|>
|> > pkg_delete xcoloredit
|>
|> you have to know the specific version even if its the only one installed.
...
|> Is there some option permutation of pkg_delete to get the latter form to
|> work?
|>
|> If not, I think this would be a handy feature.
|>
|> Yeah I know, I could just cook a pkg_delete wrapper script to do this, but
Michael G.:
|This is not an answer to your question..but I just wanted to
|make sure you knew that you can look at /var/db/pkg to see all
|the packages you have installed. The directory names you see
|are exactly what you would type (or copy and paste) for use with
|pkg_delete.
David Kelly:
|Change your shell to enable filename expansion and you can quickly read
|the version number something like this (using tcsh) <TAB> is ^I, tab:
...
| % pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/fetchmail-5.0.0/
|
|then the DELETE (or backspace) key and ^B can trim off the excess.
Mark Ovens:
|Why not extend what you already do?
|
| pkg_delete `pkg_info -Ia | grep coloredit | awk '{print $1}'`
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