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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] ipfwadm in BL3
  • Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:55:37 +0000 (UTC)


Why do you need a spreadsheet to remove the first few characters from each line? I have done this in DOS with several text editors - is there a linux text editor that can block columns?

Does the removepkg command (in BL2) require that you first use installpkg (to create a log of files in a package)?

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, James Miller wrote:

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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