On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:20:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 22:10:25 +0200 > jobse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 21:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:50:50 +0200 > > > jobse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > hello > > > > I do like this from /usr/ports. > > > > pkg_delete multimedia/mplayer*, right. > > though cd to the mplayer ports dir followed by make deinstall 'should' > have solved the problem, i just noticed another detail worth mentioning. > > you're using pkg_delete here. i do not believe that it accepts shell > globs (like * or ?). you might have better luck with pkg_deinstall -- part > of the tools installed by /sysutils/portupgrade, which i *highly* > recommend.
pkg_delete does accept shell globs, but you have to quote them to make sure that the shell does not expand them. (I.e. one should do something like pkg_delete 'mplayer*' to delete all all packages whose name start with mplayer.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
