how to start over with respect to ports

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:26:52 -0500, Jason Trickett <jstrickett at cogeco.ca>  
wrote:

> I just want reset my ports and delete any that were built so far. Do I  
> have to do it individually, or (hopefully) all at once. I want to go  
> back to just using packages until I am more comfortable using the ports  
> system. If answering please provide a detailed, easy-to-follow answer.  
> I'd rather not have to reinstall the whole thing. Thanks.

I usually use the 'rm -rf /dir /dir2' to do the job like this.

# rm -rf /usr/local/* /usr/X11R6/* /compat/linux/* /var/db/pkg/*  
/var/db/ports/*

Remove /compat/linux if you don't use any of linux stuff. It's what great  
about BSD is hier(7) by keep base system and ports seperate.

Cheers,
Mezz


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