[wplug-bsd] install oops

Dan Pelleg daniel+wplug at pelleg.org
Wed Jul 21 08:35:30 EDT 2004


Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> writes:

> I was just about to install SpamAssassin from the port when I accidentally 
> entered 'make install' in the /usr/ports/mail directory.  I think this 
> means it was installing everything there.
> 
> Well, I stopped it after I realized it was doing all this X11R6 stuff and
> downloading icon files and IMAP clients and so forth... but obviously some 
> damage had already been done.  
> 
> Since my terminal only has a 200-line memory, and nothing was logged in 
> /var/log/anything, can I tell if I did anything *bad* (as opposed to just 
> doing something *dumb*?)
> 
> -Brandon
> 

ls -ltr /var/db/pkg and inspect the dates

Also, you might want to free some space by browsing /usr/ports/distfiles 
(or use portsclean, if you have portupgrade installed).

-- 

  Dan Pelleg



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