Removing a problem category

To remove a category from the database:

1. Remove the Problem Reports from the subdirectories corresponding to the categories you wish to remove, or assign the PRs to new categories. All PRs for a given category reside in `GNATS_ROOT/category'. Make sure you do this for each category you wish to remove.
2. Run rmcat using

   rmcat category [ category... ]
   

   where category is the category you wish to remove. You can specify as many categories as you wish as long as each category has no PRs associated with it. rmcat removes the directory under GNATS_ROOT where the Problem Reports for that category had been stored. rmcat also deletes the category from the list of valid categories for both your locally installed send-pr and for the send-pr distribution template in `prefix/lib/gnats/dist' (see section Where GNATS lives).

Note: rmcat does not update the categories list for other machines on your network which have send-pr installed. See section Managing GNATS over a network.

It is also important to note that only your local send-pr has access to this new information; any copies of send-pr which you have distributed to outside submitters now have outdated category lists. You must either contact your submitters and instruct them to update their copy of the categories list, which they installed in `prefix/lib/gnats/support-site' (Note: the value for prefix may be different from yours) from the distribution you provided, or you must build another distribution of send-pr with this new information and redistribute it (see section Configuring send-pr for the outside world).

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