pkg delete dilema

[Mario Lobo]

On Wed, 11 May 2016 13:56:37 +0200
Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> El día Wednesday, May 11, 2016 a las 08:47:54AM -0300, Mario Lobo
> escribió:
> 
> > > I could be wrong. I have to admit that I don't know all the
> > > ins-and-outs of pkg(8), but (if I may be blunt) the conventional
> > > wisdom I learned from my Arch Linux days was "Don't ever use
> > > 'pacman --force' unless you know what you're doing---and if you
> > > think using 'pacman --force' is a good idea, you don't know what
> > > you're doing." 
> > 
> > Right! It is not a good idea but I had to.  
> 
> I compile all my ~1800 packages on some other host with poudriere and
> install them from time to time from my own repository with:
> 
> # pkg delete -a
> # pkg delete -f pkg
> # pkg-static install ...
> 
> This works nice, fast and clean.
> 
> 	matthias
> 

Thanks Matthias!

This is something I'll definitely be doing.

-- 
Mario Lobo
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FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!]
 
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, 
because that would also stop you from doing clever things."