On 5 Apr 2013, at 15:13, Simon Urbanek <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Apr 5, 2013, at 5:16 AM, Federico Calboli <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> is there an intelligent way of uninstalling the stuff that comes with >> gcc-4.2 (Apple build 5666.3) with GNU Fortran 4.2.4 for Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) >> without accidentally removing something else? I could use pkgutil to fish >> out all the files and remove them by hand (my bash foo is not foo enough to >> do it automagically and without ever deleting other stuff by mistake) but it >> is a bit of a faff. >> > > From Apple there is pkgutil --unlink for uninstallation, but I don't know if > it was introduced in 10.7 or 10.8. There are other 3rd party tools that do > the same thing (or more), but I have not used any of those myself. pkgutil --unlink does not exist anymore since 10.7. I guess it caused way too many catastrophic errors. > > >> The old standalone gfortran had a uninstall script that was pretty handy… >> > > It was pretty much just > pkgutil --files xxx.pkg | sed 's:^:rm -f /:' | sort -r > plus dir tweaks anyway, so it's really what you describe above. Thanks, I'll see what I can cook up. Before I do something terminally stupid, does the package *overwrite* anything or are all the files listed by pkgutil --files org.r-project.gcc-42.darwin11.pkg safe to remove? BW Federico > > Cheers, > Simon > > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
