deinstall problem (reprise)

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Tue Feb 1 00:05:33 PST 2005


On Tuesday, 1. February 2005 01:04, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Monday 31 January 2005 04:04 pm, Lane wrote:
> > Hey!
> >
> > I just noticed that the mythtv port I'm working on uses 'make
> > uninstall' instead of 'make deinstall' in several of the generated
> > Makefiles.
> >
> > How can I instruct the port Makefile to call 'make uninstall' for an
> > indeterminate number of Makefiles?
>
> Don't, they are not related.  Make uninstall is meant to be used
> only when you have no packaging system.  In general anything
> you want to be de-installed goes into pkg-plist. 

Just to make this more clear: 'make deinstall' in a portdir does not call any 
target in the actual port, it really just does pkg_delete (essentially). So 
you don't need to worry at all about what uninstall procedures the build 
system of your port uses, just make sure pkg-plist is correct.

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