Anyway to remove software on a client from munki database via command line?

[Hayden]

So when munki removes something on a client, the log states:

"Removing package data from internal database..."

Is there a way to remove a package via command line on a client without munki? How do you remove something from it's internal database?

[Nick McSpadden]

That'd be the "pkgutil" command.  Check out the manpage for it for details, but generally sudo pkgutil --forget com.package.name does the trick.

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[Gregory Neagle]

Read the 1000+ lines of code in /usr/local/munki/munkilib/removepackages.py and replicate the functionality.

Or _use_ it:

/usr/local/munki/munkilib/removepackages.py pkgid [pkgid ...]

/usr/local/munki/munkilib/removepackages.py --help 

for more options

-Greg

[Gregory Neagle]

On Apr 18, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Nick McSpadden <nick.mc...@sacredsf.org> wrote:

That'd be the "pkgutil" command.  Check out the manpage for it for details, but generally sudo pkgutil --forget com.package.name does the trick.

That removes the pkgid from pkgutil's database, but does not remove the items installed by the package itself.

-Greg

[Hayden]

Let's just say I have a simple package that installs some files into a dir, nothing else - munki is still placing a receipt into it's 'database' and if I manually remove that dir and try to reinstall it via munki it thinks it's still installed because of this receipt. I could just uncheck the box, remove it, and then reinstall but I was just hoping for a command that would remove the entry in the 'database' manually, which I thought was the ApplicationInventory.plist in /Library/Managed Installs/

[Gregory Neagle]

In that case, `pkgutil --forget pkgid` will accomplish what you want.

-Greg

On Apr 18, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Hayden <crackh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Let's just say I have a simple package that installs some files into a dir, nothing else - munki is still placing a receipt into it's 'database' and if I manually remove that dir and try to reinstall it via munki it thinks it's still installed because of this receipt. I could just uncheck the box, remove it, and then reinstall but I was just hoping for a command that would remove the entry in the 'database' manually, which I thought was the ApplicationInventory.plist in /Library/Managed Installs/

No, that's an inventory of what apps are installed on a machine.

[Hayden]

Ok will try, thank you.

[jps3]

I've been using this for awhile since I discovered it. It's very helpful for those situations, especially testing or special computers, where I need to clean something up. Of course, be careful, there are a lot of sloppy packages out there that do all kinds of oddball things, so this method may not fix/remove everything. It's also nice since I can be run via ssh, ARD Send Unix command, etc.

[Gregory Neagle]

On Apr 19, 2013, at 12:02 PM, jps3 <jp...@lehigh.edu> wrote:

I've been using this for awhile since I discovered it.

What exactly?

It's very helpful for those situations, especially testing or special computers, where I need to clean something up. Of course, be careful, there are a lot of sloppy packages out there that do all kinds of oddball things, so this method may not fix/remove everything. It's also nice since I can be run via ssh, ARD Send Unix command, etc.

If you mean `pkgutil --forget com.foo.somepkg`, it doesn't remove _anything_ except the receipt in pkgutil's database.

 

-Greg