/usr/local question

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 12/01/2008, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just executed 'pkg_delete -a' to delete all packages and do a clean
> reinstall.  (World and kernel were updated this morning.)
>
> Pkg_delete was unable to completely remove certain files and directories
> under /usr/local.  Since I have backed-up all user data under /usr/local
> (web pages and postgresql databases) deleted all packages, is it safe to
> delete everything that remains under /usr/local?  I have an archived copy of
> /usr/local/etc for reference during reinstallation.
>

Generally, yes(1).  I think I would still give a cursory
glance at all the files that pkg_delete left:

% find /usr/local/ -type f | less

Otherwise, sail on.

(1) in that the base install of FreeBSD does not
touch /usr/local and nothing in /usr/local should
prevent the running of basic system utilities.

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