Uninstall not removing packages?

markd at macports.org markd at macports.org
Thu Aug 30 13:31:00 PDT 2007


Have you tried uninstalling using the case-sensitive portname?  I don't
have time to look right now, but I think there is a bug filed on this.  I
think you can install without matching the case, but when you ininstall
without matching the case it doesn't work correctly.

Mark

Troy Telford <ttelford.groups at gmail.com> writes:
>Simple enough:  I uninstalled a couple of packages, in particular, TeTeX,
>and 
>XeTeX.  (port uninstall tetex && port uninstall xetex)
>
>Port claimed to have uninstalled both without error, problems, etc.
>
>However, nothing was uninstalled.  All of the files for both packages are 
>still there.
>
>So, I tried re-installing both.
>
>That failed, because the same files were already in place.
>
>I next re-installed, using the '-f' switch to force it.
>
>Lots of file renames, and port re-installed the package.  I deleted the 
>renamed files.
>
>I then tried to uninstall the package.  Same deal as before -- files
>which 
>should have been deleted weren't.
>
>Has anybody seen this behavior and/or have an idea what I need to do to 
>uninstall these packages?
>
>(the thought already occured to me to make a list of the 'renamed' files,
>edit 
>the list so it's the original filenames, then 'cat list | xargs rm')  But
>I'd 
>rather macports do it properly.




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