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["Carl Reaburn" <carlreaburn AT attech.net.au>]

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Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: [BL] ipfwadm in BL3


> David Moberg wrote:
> > You can automatically remove packages with this command sequence:
> > cd /
> > rm -f `tar -ztf /full/path/to/package.tgz`
> > rmdir `tar -ztf /full/path/to/package.tgz`
>
> Couple of problems with those.  You need the -v parameter
> to get the filelist.  You need to remove the data that
> preceeds the filename (otherwise rm and rmdir will barf).
> The rmdir will only delete the bottom directory of each
> subtree (you can get around this by running it again and
> again).


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. :)

I then installed the correct version of the package and now ipchains is 
working just fine :)

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.