From: Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Subject: Re: dpb: wipe all packages in an error state
To: rafael@sizeofvoid.org, ports@openbsd.org, marc.espie.openbsd@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 11:23:06 +0000

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.