Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:59:51 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Mailing List <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Portmaster 3.1 upgrade Message-ID: <AANLkTik_OrT7oN20RYQ3B9E5TFRfSHq8-o5dAPC=KQf5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CCDBC20.10102@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <AANLkTimKKVeR_EsoDQv_3r%2B8hdh%2Ba9K_bAxWx4qi_cgW@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim75-0AoGuTaptR5MRChbXWFpe0kgmXieKFxY6X@mail.gmail.com> <4CCDBC20.10102@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 31/10/2010 17:56, Freddie Cash wrote: >> The correct command is: pkg_delete -xf portmaster >> >> -x does name globbing internally to pkg_delete, and should be used >> over any shell globbing (like *). > > 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\* Which is why I mentioned the "more safe" alternative, which you snipped out of your reply: pkg_delete -xif portmaster Note the extra "i" in the middle, which makes the pkg_delete call interactive, showing the package name to be deleted, and asking the user whether that's the correct package to be deleted. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.comhelp
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