Uninstall not removing packages?
Troy Telford
ttelford.groups at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 14:52:43 PDT 2007
You are correct. Thanks.
On Thursday 30 August 2007, markd at macports.org wrote:
> Have you tried uninstalling using the case-sensitive portname? I don't
> have time to look right now, but I think there is a bug filed on this. I
> think you can install without matching the case, but when you ininstall
> without matching the case it doesn't work correctly.
>
> Mark
>
> Troy Telford <ttelford.groups at gmail.com> writes:
> >Simple enough: I uninstalled a couple of packages, in particular, TeTeX,
> >and
> >XeTeX. (port uninstall tetex && port uninstall xetex)
> >
> >Port claimed to have uninstalled both without error, problems, etc.
> >
> >However, nothing was uninstalled. All of the files for both packages are
> >still there.
> >
> >So, I tried re-installing both.
> >
> >That failed, because the same files were already in place.
> >
> >I next re-installed, using the '-f' switch to force it.
> >
> >Lots of file renames, and port re-installed the package. I deleted the
> >renamed files.
> >
> >I then tried to uninstall the package. Same deal as before -- files
> >which
> >should have been deleted weren't.
> >
> >Has anybody seen this behavior and/or have an idea what I need to do to
> >uninstall these packages?
> >
> >(the thought already occured to me to make a list of the 'renamed' files,
> >edit
> >the list so it's the original filenames, then 'cat list | xargs rm') But
> >I'd
> >rather macports do it properly.
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Troy Telford
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