ports/54912: New port: pkg_cutleaves - Perl script for finding/pkg_deinstalling 'leaf' packages

Stefan Walter sw at gegenunendlich.de
Wed Aug 20 09:40:49 UTC 2003


The following reply was made to PR ports/54912; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stefan Walter <sw at gegenunendlich.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, sw at gegenunendlich.de
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/54912: New port: pkg_cutleaves - Perl script for finding/pkg_deinstalling 'leaf' packages
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:40:29 +0200

 There's a mistake in the explanation of the '-R' parameter of the man
 page - there cannot be any packages depending on leaf packages. Apply
 the following patch to correct the man page.
 Thanks to Adam Weinberger for pointing this out.
 
 --- pkg_cutleaves.1.old	Tue Aug 12 20:40:15 2003
 +++ pkg_cutleaves.1	Tue Aug 12 20:42:45 2003
 @@ -24,8 +24,8 @@
  .IP -x
  Exclude packages matching expressions given in the exclude file.
  .IP -R
 -Run 'pkg_deinstall -R' instead of plain 'pkg_deinstall', so packages
 -depending on removed leaf packages will be deinstalled, too.
 +Run 'pkg_deinstall -R' instead of plain 'pkg_deinstall', so packages the
 +removed leaf packages depend(ed) on will be deinstalled, too.
  .SH FILES
  .I /usr/local/etc/pkg_leaves.exclude
  .RS



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