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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 2021 09:46:17 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remove a port without removing files
Message-ID:  <20211006074617.cf5fwrugifmydstc@aniel.nours.eu>
In-Reply-To: <199845d7-2be0-f572-b6f5-78a2d51562bb@nethead.se>
References:  <199845d7-2be0-f572-b6f5-78a2d51562bb@nethead.se>

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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



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