Uninstalling Port installed applications
Hi, I have a question about uninstalling port. Say, there are 5 applications -- A, B, C, D, E Installing A depends on B,C,D, and E. There is no problem that I type 'make install' under /usr/port/xxx/A that the port system will help me install B,C,D,E since they are required by application A. Supposed that E was also required by another application F which was already installed in the system, I wonder if I type 'make deinstall' under /usr/port/xxx/A and try to uninstall A, will the port system help me uninstall B,C,D but not uninstall E ? Thank you! Michael Lee ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uninstalling Port installed applications
You are looking for the 'sysutils/portupgrade' port. It installs a tool called pkg_deinstall. So to achieve what you described, you would run 'pkg_deinstall -R A' and it would deinstall 'A' and any of its orphaned dependencies, ie. B, C, D but not E. Seeya...Q On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 21:41, Michael Lee wrote: Hi, I have a question about uninstalling port. Say, there are 5 applications -- A, B, C, D, E Installing A depends on B,C,D, and E. There is no problem that I type 'make install' under /usr/port/xxx/A that the port system will help me install B,C,D,E since they are required by application A. Supposed that E was also required by another application F which was already installed in the system, I wonder if I type 'make deinstall' under /usr/port/xxx/A and try to uninstall A, will the port system help me uninstall B,C,D but not uninstall E ? Thank you! Michael Lee ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uninstalling Port installed applications
Thank you for your reply. I know there was a tool called portupgrade that can manage the ports very well. What I want to know is that if I do not use portupgrade, can 'make deinstall' do what I expected ? Thanks! Michael Lee - Original Message - From: Q [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 7:48 PM Subject: Re: Uninstalling Port installed applications You are looking for the 'sysutils/portupgrade' port. It installs a tool called pkg_deinstall. So to achieve what you described, you would run 'pkg_deinstall -R A' and it would deinstall 'A' and any of its orphaned dependencies, ie. B, C, D but not E. Seeya...Q On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 21:41, Michael Lee wrote: Hi, I have a question about uninstalling port. Say, there are 5 applications -- A, B, C, D, E Installing A depends on B,C,D, and E. There is no problem that I type 'make install' under /usr/port/xxx/A that the port system will help me install B,C,D,E since they are required by application A. Supposed that E was also required by another application F which was already installed in the system, I wonder if I type 'make deinstall' under /usr/port/xxx/A and try to uninstall A, will the port system help me uninstall B,C,D but not uninstall E ? Thank you! Michael Lee ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uninstalling Port installed applications
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Michael Lee thusly... Say, there are 5 applications -- A, B, C, D, E Installing A depends on B,C,D, and E. ... Supposed that E was also required by another application F which was already installed in the system, I wonder if I type 'make deinstall' under /usr/port/xxx/A and try to uninstall A, will the port system help me uninstall B,C,D but not uninstall E ? I don't think the port system could help by itself, either like portupgrade or Add/Remove Software on Windows. If you know the dependencies, just do it yourself one port at a time. There are two ways: pkg_delete(1) (pkg_deinstall(1) comes from portupgrade(1)) make deinstall, ports(7). By default, pkg_delete will not remove a dependency (in your case any of B, C, D, E) if the dependent port still exists (A) in the ports database (/var/db/pkg). You can force it though via -f option, and recursively delete ports via -r. See pkg_delete(1) for details. The deinstall target (run in the directory of to-be-deinstalled-port) will deinstall the dependency port, B, C, D, or E, regardless of existence of a dependent port, A. If the dependent port exists, a warning message will be generated informing you of the fact. That has been my experience of w/ the ports so far. Back to your case... - Remove A (either by pkg_delete or make deinstall) - Remove B, C, D. - Done (since you need E, no need to do anything else). PS: You should consider installing portupgrade only if to keep the ports database current, like i do. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Uninstalling Port installed applications
Michael Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I want to know is that if I do not use portupgrade, can 'make deinstall' do what I expected ? If the port hasn't been modified (e.g., by cvsup'ing ports) since it was installed, yes. Otherwise, you will need to do a pkg_delete(1). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
