Re: removing a pkg from pkg database without deleting the pkg itself

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From: Stefan Esser <se_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:35:16 UTC

Am 04.04.22 um 15:26 schrieb tech-lists:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to remove a pkg entry from the database so it's not managed by pkg.

The simplest way to exclude an installed package from being managed
by pkg is to use "pkg lock":

# pkg lock -y <pkgname>

See "man pkg-lock" for more details.