Re: Killing some old packages

Lexi Winter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dan Mahoney (ports) wrote in <[email protected]>:
> We have a repo that has packages in it from no-longer launchable or
> no-longer-existing jails/ports trees. [...]
> 
> Is it likely to break anything if we just "rm" those packages or is
> there some internal state table that needs cleaning up?

after deleting packages from a repository, you should re-run pkg-repo(8)
to remove the stale metadata in the repository metadata files.
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