ports/153740: graphics/inkscape fails to build

[Koop Mast]

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.

-Koop