Remove "Phantom" Ports

[Peter West]

Have you tried
port reclaim
?

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Peter West
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“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.”

> On 10 Mar 2022, at 9:13 am, James Secan <james.secan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a number of apparently old/replaced ports (p5.26-*) that have been replaced at some point by their p5.28-* updates that are still in some way “alive” on my system.  They show up when I run "port upgrade installed -u outdated” as follows:
> 
> Warning:  No port p5.26-xxxx found in the index
> 
> I’ve tried various ways to get rid of these phantoms, but nothing I’ve tried (like a simple port uninstall) is willing to admit that any p5.26-* ports are around, although a ‘port installed’ command will list all of them and note that they are active.  I am by no stretch an expert in portsmanship, so I could easily be missing some simple answer.
> 
> Thanks.
> Jim
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> 

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