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.\" Jordan K. Hubbard
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.\"     @(#)pkg_delete.1
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.TH pkg_delete 1 "July 18, 1993" "" "FreeBSD"

.SH NAME
pkg_delete - a utility for deleting previously installed software package distributions.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.na
.B pkg_delete
.RB [options]
.RB "pkg-name\ [.. pkg-name]"

.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B pkg_delete
command is used to delete packages that have been previously installed
with the
.B pkg_add
command.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
The following command line options are supported.
.TP
.B \-v
Turns on verbose output.
.B "Optional."
.TP
.B \-D
If an de-installation script exists for a given package, do not execute it.
.B "Optional."
.TP
.B \-n
Don't actually de-install a package, just report the steps that
would be taken if it was.
.B "Optional."
.TP
.BI "\-p\ " prefix
Sets
.I prefix
as the directory in which to delete files from any installed packages
which do not explicitly set theirs.
.B "Optional."
.PP
.SH "TECHNICAL DETAILS"
.B
pkg_delete
does pretty much what it says.  It looks for a package in /var/db/pkg
and sets about deleting the files that make up the package and, finally,
the record of the package itself.
.PP
If the package contains a
.B require
file (see 
.B pkg_create
), then this is executed first with the flag
.B DEINSTALL
to see whether or not de-installation should continue (a non-zero exit
status means no).
.PP
If a
.B de-install
script exists for the package, it is executed before any files are removed.
It is this script's responsibility to clean up any additional messy details
around the package's installation, since all
.B pkg_delete
knows how to do is delete the files created in the original distribution.
The
.B de-install
script is called with the flags
.PP
.B <script>
.I pkg-name DEINSTALL
.PP
Where
.I pkg-name
is the name of the package in question and
.I DEINSTALL
is a keyword denoting that this is a deinstallation.  Passing the keyword
lets you potentially write only one program/script that handles all
aspects of installation and deletion.
.PP
.SH BUGS
Sure to be some.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR pkg_create "(" 1 "),"
.BR pkg_info "(" 1 "),"
.BR pkg_add "(" 1 "),"
.SH AUTHORS
Jordan Hubbard