I want to tell pkg to just forget about an installed port

Chris H bsd-lists at bsdforge.com
Fri Mar 27 15:45:44 UTC 2015


On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:41:21 -0400 Richard Kuhns <rjk at wintek.com> wrote

> Hello,
> 
> How can I tell pkg to completely forget about an installed port, without
> deleting it?
> 
> Specifically, I installed net-mgmt/observium a couple of months ago. I
> really like it and have paid for a subscription so what is currently on
> disk is mostly *not* what was installed by the port, so I'd like to tell
> pkg to forget about it.
You're most probably interested in: lock
see pkg(8) for details on how, and where to set this option (command).

--Chris
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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