Cleanly remove a package

[Beech Rintoul]

On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:52, Simon Gao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question hope someone can help.
>
> When upgrading a package say vsftpd, I used port install. After newer
> version is installed, I have both newer and older versions being listed
> if run pkg_info. The newer version works fine.
>
> However, I can not run "make deinstall" after installing the newer
> version because after port tree being updated, there is no make file for
> older version. Plus I can't run "make deinstall" on a live machine until
> newer package installed.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Simon

Run pkgdb -F and it will ask you if you want to unregister one of them.

Cheers

Beech

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