On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:04:39 -0700 Gary Aitken wrote: > Something pretty basic somewhere that I'm missing... > > "man ports" indicates the target "deinstall-all" will remove all > installed ports.
That's not what the man page says. > yet the target doesn't seem to exist: > > #cd /usr/ports > #make deinstall-all > make: don't know how to make deinstall-all. stop. That's not what deinstall-all does, AFAIK it's a more thorough version of deinstall that will remove packages installed under different prefixes. > This was prompted by the following when attempting to install emacs: > > ===> Checking if devel/pkgconf already installed > ===> An older version of devel/pkgconf is already installed > (pkg-config-0.25_1) >... > > Where to go from here? > Why was pkgconf still installed? > There are other packages dependent on it... is that the reason? > If so, why no warning / info when I do the make deinstall? > Probably due to skipping UPDATING 20120726 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
