On Oct 18, 2011, at 16:54, Michael O'Brien wrote: > I've built my own Portfile to create a metaport of Python(x,y), which > is a sort of open-source Matlab replacement. It consists of about forty > packages, most of which are already part of Macports. When the repository is > healthy you can install it like a regular Macport (which it is, it's just not > in the repository), and if you don't run Macports on a particular Mac, well, > you can just create a metapackage on a Mac that does, and install from the > metapackage. > > And there's the rub. The metapackage installs and works just fine, > thank you very much, but I've now been asked to come up with a way to > UN-install it. Frankly I don't know how to do this. The info we need is > buried in the metapackage file, obviously, but if the Apple installer puts a > log receipt anywhere of what it's done in a format I could use to build > something to remove all those files, I've not found it yet. > > So, question: If I use Macports to create a package file, or a > metapackage file, how can I then create an UN-installer for it?
As was already said, OS X does not include an uninstaller. There are some 3rd-party uninstallers available I think. They read the bom files (bill of materials) the installer leaves behind. On Snow Leopard and later, you can find the bill of materials files in /var/db/receipts. On Leopard and earlier, they're in /Library/Receipts. > I don't want to just blindly remove all of /opt/local. I just want to remove > exactly the set of files that were installed by the (meta)package. If you distribute a binary package, please create the package from a MacPorts installation whose prefix is NOT /opt/local, otherwise you will interfere with users who want to also use MacPorts. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
