Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies[SOLVED]
I have opted for the: pkg_delete -a Which has done a great job cleaning everything. Only had to make clean in one of the port directory to properly recompile all needed apps. As I had configured root to use /usr/local/bin/bash had to take care to change that with vipw before doing the uninstall / reinstall. Took me half a day for three servers… But at least I have a very clean install with 30 ports instead of 250 !! Thanks everybody for your wise answers. Le 27 juil. 08 à 15:17, andrew clarke a écrit : On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X? This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!! He probably just went with the defaults. Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without breaking the system? What would you suggest? Like removing X and It's dependencies? I can also remove all apps in the port tree and recompile only the one needed? What's best what do you suggest. FreeBSD provides a base system with software such as a SSH daemon, Sendmail, BIND, etc. You can uninstall all the packages on your system, but the FreeBSD base system will still remain. This allows FreeBSD to boot normally without any packages installed. I recommend you uninstall all packages (with 'pkg_delete -a', or 'pkg_delete -av' if you want to watch all the files being deleted), then install only what you need from the Ports tree. Your DNS server should probably not require any packages to be installed, as DNS server software (BIND) is provided with the FreeBSD base system. But that really depends what your requirements are. Regards Andrew Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deinstalling X and all dependencies
Hello, I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X… This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!! Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without breaking the system… What would you suggest? Like removing X and It's dependencies… I can also remove all apps in the port tree and recompile only the one needed… What's best what do you suggest. I'd rather do painful jobs now than in 6 months when everything will be up and running !! Thanks. Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies
At 2008-07-27T12:52:56+02:00, bsd wrote: Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without breaking the system… What would you suggest? One way is to use the `ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves' port to iteratively remove the superfluous leaves of your package tree. It can also be done with `ports-mgmt/portmanager' (with the -slid option) or `ports-mgmt/portmaster' (with the -s option). Raghavendra. -- N. Raghavendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute | http://www.mri.ernet.in/ See message headers for contact and OpenPGP information. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies
bsd : Hello, I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X… This has been useless!! Better doing it your self. I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!! Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without breaking the system… What would you suggest? pkg_delete * This will remove ALL packages installed. It has worked for me in the past but be careful! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:52:56 +0200 bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X___ This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!! Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without breaking the system___ If you want to remove X you can use a leaf-cutting tool like ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves. But I would have thought that a dns server would require only very few ports (possibly even zero if you use the default BIND), so it might be simpler to start over. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies
On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X? This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!! He probably just went with the defaults. Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without breaking the system? What would you suggest? Like removing X and It's dependencies? I can also remove all apps in the port tree and recompile only the one needed? What's best what do you suggest. FreeBSD provides a base system with software such as a SSH daemon, Sendmail, BIND, etc. You can uninstall all the packages on your system, but the FreeBSD base system will still remain. This allows FreeBSD to boot normally without any packages installed. I recommend you uninstall all packages (with 'pkg_delete -a', or 'pkg_delete -av' if you want to watch all the files being deleted), then install only what you need from the Ports tree. Your DNS server should probably not require any packages to be installed, as DNS server software (BIND) is provided with the FreeBSD base system. But that really depends what your requirements are. Regards Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:17:44 +1000, andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X? This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!! In or from? If they are in the ports tree but not installed, don't mind. If they are installed, deinstall them as recommended, using pkg_delete for example. I can also remove all apps in the port tree and recompile only the one needed? What's best what do you suggest. FreeBSD provides a base system with software such as a SSH daemon, Sendmail, BIND, etc. You can uninstall all the packages on your system, but the FreeBSD base system will still remain. This allows FreeBSD to boot normally without any packages installed. Very well you mentioned this - this difference between base OS and installable packages is one of the most important features of FreeBSD to me. Having said this, all the additional software (from ports or from packages) reside within /usr/local; everything outside /usr/local belongs to the OS. This means you can # rm -rf /usr/local # mtree -f /etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist and then start installing the software you want. The base system won't be affected at all. # cd /usr/ports/category/port # make install package clean or # pkg_add -r what you want So you end up only with the things you intendedly install (including the needed dependencies). This is the way I did setup a 5.X system many years ago which died this month due to a problem killing various inodes... :-( I recommend you uninstall all packages (with 'pkg_delete -a', or 'pkg_delete -av' if you want to watch all the files being deleted), then install only what you need from the Ports tree. You can, of course, just deinstall the packages you know you won't need, but as you said, if there are more than 250 of them installed (related to X, maybe Gnome or KDE, too), it's easier to invest some time and build from scratch, just as you need. Your DNS server should probably not require any packages to be installed, as DNS server software (BIND) is provided with the FreeBSD base system. See? Everything there from the base install. :-) But that really depends what your requirements are. Exactly. -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
