Re: which is the better way...?

2009-12-03 Thread S4mmael
[ch...@amnesiac]~% sudo rm -rf / rm: / may not be removed [ch...@amnesiac]~% Gutted! I'll have to use pkg_*... Chris You can try this: sudo rm -rf /* I guess It works))). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: which is the better way...?

2009-12-02 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:15:11 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org a écrit : it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred way of cleaning out the old stuff.. You should use pkg_delete to remove an installed

Re: which is the better way...?

2009-12-02 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:01:50 +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: Le Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:15:11 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org a écrit : it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the

Re: which is the better way...?

2009-12-02 Thread usleepless
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred way of cleaning out the old stuff.. Early this century I started removing packages by

Re: which is the better way...?

2009-12-02 Thread Chris Rees
2009/12/2 usleepl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and /bin/rm -r it from there?  this time i'll make a not of the preferred way of cleaning out the old stuff.. Early this century

Re: which is the better way...?

2009-12-02 Thread usleepless
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/12/2 usleepl...@gmail.com: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a

Re: which is the better way...?

2009-12-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:38:18PM +0100, usleepl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred way of cleaning

Re: which is the better way...?

2009-12-02 Thread Gary Kline
# cd /var/db/pkg # pkg_delete PKG # Use Tab key for completion. # pkgdb -vFa is in my ~/.HowTo file. thanks for the datapoints and the chuckles, gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org

which is the better way...?

2009-12-01 Thread Gary Kline
it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and /bin/rm -r it from there? this time i'll make a not of the preferred way of cleaning out the old stuff.. -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org