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From:
Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky>
Subject:
Re: dpb: wipe all packages in an error state
To:
rafael@sizeofvoid.org, ports@openbsd.org, marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com
Date:
Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:34:09 +0100

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:23:06 +0100,
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2025/11/01 11:59, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > On Sat, 01 Nov 2025 11:09:02 +0100,
> > Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Simple diff to add the external control "wipe-all". This wiped all
> > > packages in an error state.
> > > 
> > > Is this useful for anyone else?
> > >
> > 
> > During my ffmpeg bulk I had need for it more than once.
> > 
> > But wipe accepts multiple packages as space separated list which is an
> > output in dpb UI. So, I ended with a few cycle of copy and paste.
> 
> it's a bit of a pain on multiple hosts where the pkgpath has (machine)
> listed afterwards, and copying from dpb usually results in broken line
> wrapping, so this does seem useful to me.
> 

Oh, broken line wrapping. Yeah, it was quite a pain.


-- 
wbr, Kirill