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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:41:25 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Novembre <novembre@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
Message-ID:  <20080611054125.GA15965@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <3b47caa90806102209w5161d96cjdd41d55f0315429c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <3b47caa90806102209w5161d96cjdd41d55f0315429c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote:
> Two questions:
> 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed?

ls -ld /var/db/pkg/<port>, use the mtime of the directory.

> 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date?

Use a combination of find with the -mtime flag, and pkg_delete.

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