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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