pkg db

[Baho Utot]

On 04/17/17 08:50, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 16/04/2017 10:19, Baho Utot wrote:
>> I rebuilt world using 11.0-p8 source and issued make package to build
>> packages.  I put them into a repository and installed them. Now I would
>> like to remove them from the pkg database so I can rebuild world using
>> the old method as in the manual.  How can I remove the entries in the
>> pkg database and not remove the installed packages?   I don't want to
>> remove the installed packages and have a non-bootable system.
> 
> You want to remove FreeBSD-base packages from your pkgdb, leaving
> everything else?
> 
> Move aside your current pkgdb, initialize a new one and then reinstall
> any ports.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> 

Yes,  It looks like that is the only way to fix this