Best way to exterminate a port
Kurt Jaeger
lists at opsec.eu
Tue Jul 12 08:46:28 UTC 2016
Hi!
> > > Is there an easy way to "rip out by the roots" a botched
> > > port install and start over, including re-doing all the
> > > configuration dialogs of the port and its dependencies?
> >
> > For one port:
> >
> > pkg delete port
> >
> > cd /usr/ports/<...>
> >
> > make rmconfig
>
> Isn't there an "rmconfig-recursive" target?
Thanks, I was not aware of that.
> And doesn't pkg delete have -r or -R for recursively deleting dependencies?
man pkg-delete has
-R
Delete all packages that require the listed packages as well.
So it looks that this does something else ?
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