Delete or replace all installed packages

[shep]

I think the mirror I used for a new 4.7 install was incomplete as I had several errors (some packages not found that I manually installed)
I must of missed something as my xfce4 desktop is missing components.

I would like to delete all packages and try again with a second level mirrror.
I applied all 5 patches to the core and was wondering if there is either a way to force replacement of all packages or to delete all installed packages?

FreeBSD has a pke_delete -a but OpenBSD does not. Is there a script that would do this?

Thanks

[ocicat]

Originally Posted by shep

Is there a script that would do this?

It is fairly straightforward to pass the output of pkg_info(1) to pkg_delete(1):

#/bin/sh

for f in $(pkg_info | awk '{ print $1 }') ; do
    echo "pkg_delete -F $f"
done

This code is merely illustrative, but it should give you enough information to complete bulk deletion yourself.

[BSDfan666]

The package tools are pretty smart as well, you can do something like pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/* and it should work.

[shep]

Thanks for both replies. I'm a lazy typist and tried BSDfan666 solution which worked.