[wplug-bsd] FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE Printer Issues

[Poyner, Brandon]

Running "make deinstall" just ends up calling pkg_delete in the end.
The make deinstall process does some guesswork to determine which
version of the package if any is currently installed.  That's one of the
nice things about the ports system, you are really building and
installing packages.  The packages are registered in /var/db/pkg.  Once
the port build is complete you can "make clean" (or for that matter rm
-rf /usr/ports) and still have the package information.  

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer II
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Haney [mailto:mh2g at xinterra.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 11:29 AM
To: wplug-bsd at wplug.org
Cc: Benjamin Slavin
Subject: Re: [wplug-bsd] FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE Printer Issues


> > This may not be a lot of help, but "make deinstall" should work.
> 
> Make deinstall worked for the port, but not the source. The locations 
> and files were slightly different, so using make deinstall from the
port 
> didn't get everything, and the official CUPS distribution has no
target 
> in the makefile for getting rid of it.

I think make deinstall only works if you have not yet done a "make
clean" 
on the install directory in the ports system. If you have already done 
the "make clean" you should still be able to use pkg_delete to get rid
of 
CUPS.