uninstalling a selected port ...

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Fri Feb 28 06:15:35 PST 2014


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Jason Swails <jason.swails at gmail.com>wrote:

> sudo port -f select --set postgresql postgresql93
>
> In my opinion, such protection is a Good Thing (TM).  There's a way to
> work around it if you know the reason behind the file collision, but I
> certainly wouldn't want a program (especially one I run as root) to go
> around clobbering existing files without me knowing it.
>

Except the implication of their preamble is that that file was left around
by removing the postgres92 port, because port select isn't sufficiently
integrated and isn't cleared when a `select`ed port is removed.

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