NAME
pkg_delete
—
delete software package
distributions
SYNOPSIS
pkg_delete |
[-acIimnqsVvXx ] [-B
pkg-destdir] [-D
name[=value]]
[pkg-name ...] |
DESCRIPTION
The pkg_delete
command is used to delete
packages that have been previously installed with the
pkg_add(1) command.
Package names may be specified either as the package name itself, or as a filename which consists of the package name plus the “.tgz” suffix, or as a full pathname like /var/db/pkg/pkgname, so that shell wildcards can be used.
Version numbers and flavors (see packages-specs(7)) can be omitted, unless the resulting specification is ambiguous.
Otherwise, pkg-name in
pkg_delete
may use the same convenient shortcuts as
pkg_add(1):
‘pkg_delete
autoconf%2.13’ will
delete autoconf from the 2.13
branch.
pkg_delete
will
syslog(3) deletions by
default.
pkg_delete
relies on the file system
information being consistent. In case of a system crash,
/var/db/pkg may become corrupted. Use
pkg_check(8) to repair
things.
pkg_delete
may ask questions in
interactive mode, or error out otherwise. Interactive mode is the default on
a tty, see options -I/i
.
The options are as follows:
-a
- Delete unused dependencies (packages that are not needed by anything tagged as installed manually). Can be used without pkgnames. If used with pkgnames, it will only delete non manual installs in the list.
-B
pkg-destdir- Set pkg-destdir as the prefix to prepend to any object deleted.
-c
- Delete extra configuration file, mentioned as
in the packing-list.
@extra file
-D
name[=value]- Force removal of the package. name is a keyword that
states what failsafe should be waived. Recognized keywords include:
baddepend
- Force the deletion of packages even if they reference nonexistent dependencies.
checksum
- Verify checksums before deleting files.
dependencies
- Also delete the whole set of packages that depends upon the requested packages.
nonroot
- Uninstall even if not running as root.
scripts
- External scripts may fail.
-I
- Force non-interactive mode. Default is to be interactive when run from a tty.
-i
- Force interactive mode, even if not run from a tty.
pkg_delete
may ask questions to the user if faced with difficult decisions. -m
- Causes
pkg_delete
to always display the progress meter in cases it would not do so by default. -n
- Don't actually deinstall a package, just report the steps that would be taken if it were.
-qq
- Do not bother with checksums for configuration files.
-s
- Don't actually deinstall packages, report the disk size changes that would happen.
-V
- Turn on statistics output. For now, only displays the number of packages
done/total number of packages. Several
-V
will turn on more statistics in the future. -v
- Turn on verbose output. Several
-v
turn on more verbose output. By default,pkg_delete
is almost completely silent, but it reacts to keyboard status requests (see stty(1)).-v
turns on basic messages,-vv
adds relevant system operations,-vvv
shows most internal computations apart from individual file/directory additions, and-vvvvv
shows everything. -X
- Delete everything, except the list of packages that follow.
-x
- Disable progress meter.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
pkg_delete
examines installed package
records for the pkgname specified, checks
inter-dependencies between installed packages, deletes the package contents
in an order respecting dependencies (e.g., packages with dependencies get
removed first), and finally removes the package records.
If a package is required by other installed packages not mentioned
in the list of packages to remove, pkg_delete
will
list those dependent packages and refuse to delete the package.
ENVIRONMENT
PKG_CHECKSUM
- If set, verify files checksums during deletion, exactly like
-D
checksum
. PKG_DBDIR
- Where to look for installed packages instead of /var/db/pkg.
SEE ALSO
pkg_add(1), pkg_create(1), pkg_info(1), packages-specs(7), pkg_check(8)
AUTHORS
- Jordan Hubbard
- initial design
-
Marc Espie - complete rewrite