ports/153740: graphics/inkscape fails to build

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Koop Mast <kwm at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 14:39 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Chris Brennan <xaero at xaerolimit.net> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 2:55 PM, <mezz at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Synopsis: graphics/inkscape fails to build
>> >>
>> >> State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
>> >> State-Changed-By: mezz
>> >> State-Changed-When: Sat Jan 8 19:51:20 UTC 2011
>> >> State-Changed-Why:
>> >> Resolved by unknown reason after reboot machine.
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, yes, it's difficult to follow the UPDATING when you are far away
>> >> like
>> >> more than 6 months to a year. I usually would remove all installed ports
>> >> then
>> >> do a clean installation of ports.
>> >>
>> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=153740
>> >>
>> >
>> > I've got a machine that qualifies under these situations, is there an easy
>> > way to remove all ports installed? This might be useful for preforming a
>> > binary upgrade of said machine over the wire.
>>
>> If you have nvidia-driver or/and linux stuff, uninstall those by use
>> pkg_delete first. After that, do the 'rm -rf /usr/local/*
>> /var/db/pkg/*'.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>>
>
> whats wrong with a good old fasioned "pkg_delete -a"? Also users
> shouldn't touch /var/db/pkg.

It's a lot faster than pkg_delete. :-) Also, sometimes when you do the
pkg_delete. There are a few directories and even a few files left
over. The 'rm -rf' will never fail the task.

Oh by the way, don't forget to back up your /usr/local/etc/* if you
have tweaked any in there. I don't, so I don't have to worry any about
it.

Cheers,
Mezz

> -Koop


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