How to uninstall pkgng

[Marcin Wisnicki]

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Jason Hellenthal <jhellenthal at dataix.net> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 07:03:23PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> On 09/06/2012 18:46, Marcin Wisnicki wrote:
>> > I've made a mistake of installing pkgng on 9.0-amd64 but since there is no
>> > up-to-date repository I want to remove it.
>> >
>> > What would be the correct procedure to achieve that ?
>> >
>> > Invoking `pkg delete -a` still leaves some files including /usr/sbin/pkg.
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>> Not easy.  You'ld have to delete the pkg port, undo any additional
>> configuration you may have added to eg. /etc/make.conf (ie. remove
>> WITH_PKGNG settings), undo any patches to portmaster (if you're using
>> that) and then reinstall all your ports using the original package tools
>> to rebuild /var/db/pkg/ contents.
>>
>> /usr/sbin/pkg is part of base nowadays.  You don't want to delete that.
>>

So I guess that if I have empty /usr/local, no make.conf and no
/var/db/pkg/local.sqlite then I'm fine ?

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> When was pkgng made part of base ?
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It seems to be a simple wrapper/bootstrapper (see src/usr.sbin/pkg)
that just downloads real thing.

> /usr/sbin/pkg would be from pkgng if you are using it to delete itself
> then the problem you are experiencing is the file is busy at the time of
> deletion. Try pkg_delete instead ?
>

It have deleted itself just fine.

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