From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 13:31:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E953837B401 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:31:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.boerde.de (relay.boerde.de [212.21.75.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4483A43FAF for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shauwn@relay.boerde.de) Received: by relay.boerde.de (Postfix, from userid 639) id 13A47FB2D; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:31:05 +0200 (MEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.boerde.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B238FB25; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:31:05 +0200 (MEST) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:31:04 +0200 (MEST) From: Frank Reppin To: Kris Yates In-Reply-To: <3F145152.1000408@2binteractive.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleting orphaned port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank.Reppin@boerde.de List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 20:31:09 -0000 Hello, On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Kris Yates wrote: > Hello. Every once in a while I remember that the following is seen when > you exec "pkg_version -vv": > > 41upgrade-2000-11.01 > > Obviously, this machine has gone from 3.4 release to 4.8 stable over the > years. I tried pkg_delete and a couple of other suggestions to get rid > of this entry in the installed port list without success. > > Any suggestions? > There should be a directory with a corresponding name in /var/db/pkg/ It should be safe to remove the dir there - in order to get rid of the shown output. HTH, Frank Reppin -- 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped