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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] ipfwadm in BL3
  • Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:09:09 -0600 (CST)

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Carl Reaburn wrote:

> I know this may be a cardinal sin.
>
> I imported the manifest file into excel. trimmed off the first few columns.
> inserted a column of "rm" in front of the file names. Saved it at space
> delimited text file. Copied it to the BL3 machine and ran it! bye bye to
> all the files installed. :)

Sounds like you may have stumbled onto the holy grail of program
uninstallation under Linux :). How ironic that the solution should come
from M$! But wait: you could have used OpenOffice's speadsheet program,
then it would have been a fully open source solution! Shame on you for
allowing M$ to get the credit for this one, when an open source program
could have worked just as well /end ideological shaming attempt

> Judging by the discussion over how to uninstall a package I suspect the pkg
> command needs an uninstall option added to it. It should not be too
> difficult to use the tgz file as a list of files to remove, rather than
> add. The hard part will be knowing if the empty directories were there
> before the install, and if they should be removed or not.

Steven is open to add-on packages in general. Why not work up a routine
for doing these uninstalls and submit it to him?

James




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