pkg request

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote:
> First thanks for pkgng, it made life a lot easier here.
> I have a feature request:
> sometimes ports are removed completely (e.g. textproc/py-xml),
> or there are multiple supported versions and an old
> version is removed,
> e.g. net/isc-dhcp42-server
> 
> When I have the corresponding packages installed, it is not easy
> to identify these packages (sometimes such remobal is documented in
> UPDATING bt for the above examples that is not the case).
> 
> It would be a nice option if one of the pkg tools could identify packages
> that have an origin that no longer exists in the ports tree. Perhaps even
> that pkg upgrade would delete these packages with a sepcial option.
> would be
> happy to create a patch if it weren't for the fact that I don't really
> know the right place/tool to add it to.
> 

pkg version -voRL '?'


All the one noted as orphaned does not exists remotely anymore.

Be aware that if for if a package fails to build and is not anymore on the
remote repositories it will also be marked as orphaned.

Best regards,
Bapt
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