Remove installed port without /usr/ports directory

[Brian W.]

A package should've been created as part of that. Perhaps try listing
installed packages and then deleting the displayed match.
On Jun 25, 2015 11:11 AM, "Moritz Schmitt" <moritz at schmi.tt> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Some time ago I installed the port
>
>         security/py-backports.ssl_match_hostname.
>
> Today I updated the ports tree by running
>
> portsnap fetch update
>
> and then executed portmaster to update all ports. This didn't work,
> however,
> and portmaster stopped with the following error:
>
>         ===>>> The security/py-backports.ssl_match_hostname port has been
>                deleted: This functionality was backported to python 2.7.9
>         ===>>> Aborting update
>
> Now I would like to delete security/py-backports.ssl_match_hostname but
> there
> is no such port in the ports tree anymore.
>
> Is there any other way to delete this port apart from checking out an old
> version of the port tree that still has this port in it, then delete it,
> and
> only then update?
>
> Moritz
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