Deleting orphaned port

[Frank Reppin]

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

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