Uninstall not removing packages?

[Troy Telford]

You are correct.  Thanks.

On Thursday 30 August 2007, markd at macports.org wrote:
> 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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Troy Telford