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Date:      Wed, 6 Oct 2021 11:53:05 +1100
From:      raf <freebsd@raf.org>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remove a port without removing files
Message-ID:  <YVzzcfG20x7gVGvu@raf.org>
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 <peo@nethead.se> 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

Something like this might do what you want:

  cd /
  sudo tar czf /tmp/PORTNAME.tar.gz `port contents PORTNAME | grep -v 'Port.*contains:'`
  port uninstall PORTNAME
  sudo tar xzf /tmp/PORTNAME.tar.gz
  rm /tmp/PORTNAME.tar.gz

cheers,
raf




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