how to start over with respect to ports

Jason Trickett jstrickett at cogeco.ca
Tue Jan 18 20:20:54 PST 2005


Michael C. Shultz said the following on 1/18/2005 10:29 PM:

>On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:26 pm, Jason Trickett wrote:
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>>I just want reset my ports and delete any that were built so far. Do
>>I have to do it individually, or (hopefully) all at once. I want to
>>go back to just using packages until I am more comfortable using the
>>ports system. If answering please provide a detailed, easy-to-follow
>>answer. I'd rather not have to reinstall the whole thing. Thanks.
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>pkg_delete -f * will probably work for you.
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>-Mike
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Won't this get rid of binary packages too? I want to keep my gnome 
system et al. - I just want to get rid of any port(s) that I ended up 
compiling/installing.


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