Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:57:36 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Portmaster 3.1 upgrade Message-ID: <4CCDBC20.10102@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim75-0AoGuTaptR5MRChbXWFpe0kgmXieKFxY6X@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimKKVeR_EsoDQv_3r%2B8hdh%2Ba9K_bAxWx4qi_cgW@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim75-0AoGuTaptR5MRChbXWFpe0kgmXieKFxY6X@mail.gmail.com>
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On 31/10/2010 17:56, Freddie Cash wrote:
> The correct command is: pkg_delete -xf portmaster
>=20
> -x does name globbing internally to pkg_delete, and should be used
> over any shell globbing (like *).
>=20
So dogmatic. '-x' is one alternative. A globbing expression is
another. Either can be useful, and either should be used at will and as
circumstances warrant.
Also note that
pkg_delete -xf portmaster
is technically not equivalent to
pkg_delete -f portmaster\*
Instead it's equivalent to
pkg_delete -f \*portmaster\*
In this case it's an academic distinction because the results are
exactly the same. For some other terms, that is certainly not the case.
Eg. On my server at the moment:
pkg_info -Ix mysql
apr-ipv6-devrandom-db48-mysql51-1.4.2.1.3.10 Apache Portability Library
mysql-client-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (client)
mysql-connector-java-5.1.12 MySQL Connector/J: JDBC interface for MySQL
mysql-scripts-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (scripts)
mysql-server-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (server)
mysqltuner-1.1.0 A Script Assist You with MySQL Configuration
p5-DBD-mysql-4.017 MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI)
php5-mysql-5.3.3_2 The mysql shared extension for php
php5-mysqli-5.3.3_2 The mysqli shared extension for php
Compare with:
% pkg_info -I mysql\*
mysql-client-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (client)
mysql-connector-java-5.1.12 MySQL Connector/J: JDBC interface for MySQL
mysql-scripts-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (scripts)
mysql-server-5.1.51_1 Multithreaded SQL database (server)
mysqltuner-1.1.0 A Script Assist You with MySQL Configuration
Cheers,
Matthew
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