pkg_delete(1)
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NAME
pkg_delete -- a utility for deleting previously installed software pack-
age distributions
SYNOPSIS
pkg_delete [-DdFfNnORrVv] [-K pkg_dbdir] [-p prefix] pkg-name ...
DESCRIPTION
The pkg_delete command is used to delete packages that have been previ-
ously installed with the pkg_add(1) command.
WARNING
Since the pkg_delete command may execute scripts or programs provided by
a package file, your system may be susceptible to ``Trojan horses'' or
other subtle attacks from miscreants who create dangerous package files.
You are advised to verify the competence and identity of those who pro-
vide installable package files. For extra protection, examine all the
package control files in the package record directory
(/var/db/pkg/<pkg-name>/). Pay particular attention to any +INSTALL or
+DEINSTALL files, and inspect the +CONTENTS file for @cwd, @mode (check
for setuid), @dirrm, @exec, and @unexec directives, and/or use the
pkg_info(1) command to examine the installed package control files.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are supported:
pkg-name ...
The named packages are deinstalled, wildcards can be used, see
pkg_info(1). If no version is given, the one currently installed
will be removed. If the -F flag is given, one or more (absolute)
filenames may be specified and the Package Database will be con-
sulted for the package to which the given file belongs. These
packages are then deinstalled.
-D If a deinstallation script exists for a given package, do not
execute it.
-d Remove empty directories created by file cleanup. By default,
only files/directories explicitly listed in a package's contents
(either as normal files/directories or with the @dirrm directive)
will be removed at deinstallation time. This option tells
pkg_delete to also remove any directories that were emptied as a
result of removing the package.
-F Any pkg-name given will be interpreted as pathname which is sub-
sequently transformed in a (real) package name via the Package
Database. That way, packages can be deleted by giving a filename
instead of the package-name.
-f Force removal of the package, even if a dependency is recorded or
the deinstall script fails.
-ff Force removal of the package, even if the package is marked as a
preserved package. Note that this is a dangerous operation.
-K pkg_dbdir
Set pkg_dbdir as the package database directory. If this option
isn't specified, then the package database directory is taken
from the value of the environment variable PKG_DBDIR if it's set,
otherwise it defaults to /var/db/pkg.
-N Remove the package's registration and its entries from the pack-
age database, but leave the files installed. Don't run any dein-
stall scripts or @unexec lines either.
-n Don't actually deinstall a package, just report the steps that
would be taken if it were.
-O Only delete the package's entries from the package database, do
not touch the package or its files itself.
-p prefix
Set prefix as the directory in which to delete files from any
installed packages which do not explicitly set theirs. For most
packages, the prefix will be set automatically to the installed
location by pkg_add(1).
-R This option triggers a recursive delete of the given package and
any packages it depends on, unless some other package still needs
a dependent package. This -R option can be used to clean up by
deleting a package and all its then-unneeded dependent packages.
-r pkg_delete first builds a list of all packages that require
(directly and indirectly) the one being deleted. It then deletes
these packages using pkg_delete with the given options before
deleting the user specified package. This -r option can be used
to recursively delete a package and all of the packages which
depend on that package.
-V Print version number and exit.
-v Turn on verbose output.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
pkg_delete does pretty much what it says. It examines installed package
records in /var/db/pkg/<pkg-name>, deletes the package contents, and
finally removes the package records (if an alternate package database
directory is specified, then it overrides the /var/db/pkg path shown
above).
If a package is required by other installed packages, pkg_delete will
list those dependent packages and refuse to delete the package (unless
the -f option is given).
If a package has been marked as a preserved package, it will not be able
to be deleted (unless more than one occurrence of the -f option is
given).
If a filename is given instead of a package name, the package of which
the given file belongs to can be deleted if the -F Flag is given. The
filename needs to be absolute, see the output produced by the pkg_info
-aF command.
If a deinstall script exists for the package, it is executed before and
after any files are removed. It is this script's responsibility to clean
up any additional messy details around the package's installation, since
all pkg_delete knows how to do is delete the files created in the origi-
nal distribution. The deinstall script is called as:
deinstall <pkg-name> VIEW-DEINSTALL
before removing the package from a view, and as:
deinstall <pkg-name> DEINSTALL
before deleting all files and as:
deinstall <pkg-name> POST-DEINSTALL
after deleting them. Passing the keywords VIEW-DEINSTALL, DEINSTALL and
POST-DEINSTALL lets you potentially write only one program/script that
handles all aspects of installation and deletion.
All scripts are called with the environment variable PKG_PREFIX set to
the installation prefix (see the -p option above). This allows a package
author to write a script that reliably performs some action on the direc-
tory where the package is installed, even if the user might have changed
it by specifying the -p option when running pkg_delete or pkg_add(1).
The scripts are also called with the PKG_METADATA_DIR environment vari-
able set to the location of the +* meta-data files, and with the
PKG_REFCOUNT_DBDIR environment variable set to the location of the pack-
age reference counts database directory.
ENVIRONMENT
PKG_DBDIR If the -K flag isn't given, then PKG_DBDIR is the location of
the package database directory. The default package database
directory is /var/db/pkg.
PKG_REFCOUNT_DBDIR
Location of the package reference counts database directory.
The default location is the path to the package database
directory with ``.refcount'' appended to the path, e.g.
/var/db/pkg.refcount.
SEE ALSO
pkg_add(1), pkg_admin(1), pkg_create(1), pkg_info(1), mktemp(3),
pkgsrc(7)
AUTHORS
Jordan Hubbard
most of the work
John Kohl
refined it for NetBSD
Hubert Feyrer
NetBSD wildcard dependency processing, pkgdb, recursive "down"
delete, etc.
NetBSD 5.0 March 2, 2007 NetBSD 5.0
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