[indiana-discuss] Another dumb question du jour

[Stephen Hahn]

* Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> [2008-06-17 17:18]:
> I like this "dumb question" trend.
> 
> How do I remove a package from the system ?
> 
> -bash-3.2# pkginfo -l SUNWsmbau
>    PKGINST:  SUNWsmbau
>       NAME:  samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Usr)
>   CATEGORY:  system
>       ARCH:  i386
>    VERSION:  11.11.0,REV=2008.03.19.13.46
>     VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>       DESC:  samba - A Windows SMB/CIFS fileserver for UNIX (Usr)
>    HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
>     STATUS:  completely installed
> 
> -bash-3.2# pkgchk -l SUNWsmbau | grep Pathname
> WARNING: Package <SUNWsmbau> is installed but empty
> 
> okay .. I want to remove that ... how ?
 
  $ pkg search -r SUNWsmbau

  shows that pkg:/SUNWsmba and pkg:/SUNWlibsmbclient deliver a legacy
  action for SUNWsmbau.  We could use the HOTLINE field to identify this
  as a pkg(5) legacy action, I suppose.

  $ pfexec pkg uninstall SUNWsmba SUNWlibsmbclient

  will uninstall those two packages.

> Also .. I went looking for smbd and it doesn't exist anywhere that I can see.

  $ pkg search -r smbd

  shows that pkg:/SUNWsmba delivers a /usr/sbin/smbd while pkg:/SUNWsmbs
  delivers /usr/lib/smbsrv/smbd.

  - Stephen

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