maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 219979] ports-mgmt/pkg: (pkg-1.10.1) pkg delete -a does not delete the packages after pkg

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Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> has reassigned Bugzilla Automation
<bugzilla at FreeBSD.org>'s request for maintainer-feedback to pkg at FreeBSD.org:
Bug 219979: ports-mgmt/pkg: (pkg-1.10.1) pkg delete -a does not delete the
packages after pkg
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219979



--- Description ---
man pkg-delete reports:

     -a, --all	Deletes all installed packages except for pkg(8) from the
		system and cleans the database of information related to
		removed packages.

But the fact is that it stops at pkg and does not
delete the rest of the packages:

# pkg delete -R -a
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 262 packages (of 0 packages
in the universe):

Installed packages to be REMOVED:
. . .
Number of packages to be removed: 262

The operation will free 5 GiB.

Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: y
[1/262] Deinstalling lumina-1.2.0.p1_2,2...
. . .
[234/262] Deinstalling pixman-0.34.0...
[234/262] Deleting files for pixman-0.34.0: 100%
pkg: Cannot delete pkg itself without force flag

# pkg info
pkg-1.10.1		       Package manager
pkgconf-1.3.5,1 	       Utility to help to configure compiler and linker
flags
png-1.6.29		       Library for manipulating PNG images
portmaster-3.17.10	       Manage your ports without external databases or
languages
powerpc64-binutils-2.28,1      GNU binutils for powerpc64 cross-development
printproto-1.0.5	       Print extension headers
qemu-user-static-2.8.50.g20170307_2 QEMU CPU Emulator github bsd-user branch -
static user targets
qtchooser-39		       Qt tool wrapper
randomio-1.4		       Multithreaded disk i/o microbenchmark
randrproto-1.5.0	       Randr extension headers
recordproto-1.14.2	       RECORD extension headers
renderproto-0.11.1	       RenderProto protocol headers
rsync-3.1.2_6		       Network file distribution/synchronization
utility
sqlite3-3.18.0		       SQL database engine in a C library
synth-1.69		       Custom package repository builder for FreeBSD
and DragonFly
u-boot-pine64-2016.05_1        Cross-build U-Boot loader for Pine64
u-boot-rpi2-2015.04	       Cross-build U-Boot loader for Raspberry Pi 2
u-boot-rpi3-2017.01	       Cross-build U-Boot loader for RPi3
u-boot-sinovoip-bpi-m3-2016.05 Cross-build U-Boot loader for Sinovoip Banana Pi
M3
unzip-6.0_7		       List, test, and extract compressed files from a
ZIP archive
videoproto-2.3.3	       Video extension headers
xextproto-7.3.0 	       XExt extension headers
xf86miscproto-0.9.3	       XFree86-Misc extension headers
xf86vidmodeproto-2.3.1	       XFree86-VidModeExtension extension headers
xineramaproto-1.2.1	       Xinerama extension headers
xmlcatmgr-2.2_2 	       SGML and XML catalog manager
xproto-7.0.31		       X11 protocol headers
zip-3.0_1		       Create/update ZIP files compatible with PKZIP