Uninstall non-active packages

[Bart Masschelein]

Hi Ryan,

Not so sweet as you mention ;-). I get

--->  Unable to uninstall perl5 5.8.8_0+darwin_9, the following ports  
depend on it:
--->  	autoconf
--->  	automake
Error: port uninstall failed: Please uninstall the ports that depend  
on perl5 first.

I have 5.8.8_3 installed, which is the active one. When I use the -f  
option, I get:

--->  Unable to uninstall perl5 5.8.8_0+darwin_9, the following ports  
depend on it:
--->  	autoconf
--->  	automake
Warning: Uninstall forced.  Proceeding despite dependencies.

I guess I will see if this was  a clever idea when I recompile one of  
my repositories...

But indeed, my inactive ports are gone now. Thanks. Inactive, saved in  
memory ;-).

Bart

On 07 Dec 2008, at 22:40, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Dec 7, 2008, at 15:23, Bart Masschelein wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to get a list of the non-active packages, so one  
>> could do sth like sudo port uninstall <list>, or sudo port clean  
>> <list>? I never use the -u option (read: I only recently discovered  
>> it, and will start using it from now one ;-)), hence I have a lot  
>> of non-active packages laying around.
>>
>> Or in short: how can I get rid of non-active packages, for which  
>> new versions are already installed?
>
> Sure:
>
> sudo port uninstall inactive
>
> Note that this won't quite work right in MacPorts 1.6.0: it will  
> complain that you are uninstalling a dependency of another port,  
> even though you're not, really -- you have newer versions active  
> already. In MacPorts 1.7.0 this will work right. Until then, you  
> need to force it with:
>
> sudo port -f uninstall inactive
>
>
>