Re: Remove a port without removing files

Reply: Tatsuki Makino : "Re: Remove a port without removing files"
In reply to: Per olof Ljungmark : "Remove a port without removing files"
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From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 07:46:17 UTC

On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 07:03:30PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> As the subject says, I need to remove a port so pkg etc does not care about
> it, but keeping all the ports files intact.
> 
> Thanks,
> Per
> 


Install it with pkg, then

echo 'delete from packages where name="mypkgname";' | pkg shell

This should do it.

with recent ports tree, NO_PKG_REGISTER has been fixed so
make NO_PKG_REGISTER=yes install will do it as well.

Best regards,
Bapt