Subject: Re: pkg_delete ALL how to do this pls?
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/25/2005 20:00:55
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:59:07AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> >pkg_delete -f '*'
> >
> >or brute force:
> >
> >rm -rf /usr/pkg /var/db/pkg*
> 
> These are sledgehammer methods that ask for more trouble than they are 
> worth.

huh?

on the contrary, it's the _only_ way that guarantees a clean slate.

grant.