pkg request

[Guido van Rooij]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 01:03:38PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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.
> 

Hi Baptiste,

Thanks! (should be -voRl though ;-)

-Guido