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

On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 12:31:04AM +0100, tech-lists wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > 
> > pkg shell "delete from packages where name='youpackagename'"
> > 
> > This will do the trick
> 
> Unfortunately that didn't work. I tried the following:
> 
> pkg shell "delete from packages where name='nextcloud-php80-23.0.3'"
> 
> pkg shell "delete from packages where name='www/nextcloud'"
> 
> No errors, but pkg info -xo still showed:
> 
> # pkg info -xo nextc
> nextcloud-php80-23.0.3         www/nextcloud
> 
> next, tried the pkg sqlite shell:
> 
> sqlite> delete from packages where name="nextcloud-php80-23.0.3";
> sqlite> delete from packages where name="www/nextcloud";
> sqlite> .quit

delete from packages where name="nextcloud-php80"
> 
> same result.
> -- 
> J.