What happened to pkg_delete FreeBSD 6.4?

[mikie46]

Upgraded from 6.2 -> 6.4 and pkg_delete no longer works.

There are a few packages i want to remove one is freetype2. As in;

freetype2 < needs updating (port has 2.3.7)

But when i execute pkg_delete i get this;

la1010# pkg_delete -f freetype2
pkg_delete: no such package 'freetype2' installed

That goes for another package. Is something messed up?

 

[trev]

<oops>

 

[dh]

You have to supply full package name (with version number etc) or partial name with wildcards -
Try

pkg_delete 'freetype2*'

 

[mikie46]

Ok thank you, that seemed to work!

 

[ale]

You have to supply full package name (with version number etc) or partial name with wildcards -
Try

pkg_delete 'freetype2*'

Or

pkg_delete -x freetype

Anyway I think that, unless you are doing it from a non interative script, it's better running it also with -i option.

 

[lme@]

Or

pkg_delete -x freetype

Anyway I think that, unless you are doing it from a non interative script, it's better running it also with -i option.

For pkg_delete -x is a dangerous switch.
With pkg_delete -x freetype you'd also delete an installed libfreetype or something else you don't want do delete.

It is safer to use pkg_delete freetype\*

 

[ale]

That's why I run it with -i