On 8/8/2025 5:15 PM, David Chisnall wrote:
On 8 Aug 2025, at 15:59, DutchDaemon - FreeBSD Forums Administrator <dutchdae...@freebsd.org> wrote: Just to clarify things from an inverse perspective: in a pkgbase scenario, how would one go about deleting all ports, and only ports? What would the new pkg command be?
It should be `pkg del -r {repo name}`.
It is not, currently, because (unlike the install commands), `pkg delete` does
not accept the `-r` flag (presumably because the only place where it makes
sense is in concert with the `-a` flag and no one thought of that use case).
I think that’s a bug, it should probably be fixed. And now we have a
meaningful and actionable requirement. I have filed this issue:
https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2494
Oh, leave it to me to stumble over the bug ;) Thanks.If this is indeed a matter of training muscle memory to unlearn `pkg delete -fy` and switch to `pkg del -r repo`, the transition should not be too painful.
(trying to see the upside)
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