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Date:      Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:40:19 +0100
From:      "Florent Thoumie" <flz@xbsd.org>
To:        "Peter Pentchev" <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc:        Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, Novembre <novembre@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
Message-ID:  <a01628140806110540t69f35f34p821d6b482f360b62@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080611073108.GA1184@straylight.m.ringlet.net>
References:  <3b47caa90806102209w5161d96cjdd41d55f0315429c@mail.gmail.com> <20080611054125.GA15965@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080611073108.GA1184@straylight.m.ringlet.net>

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Not really.  This is a bit dangerous.
>
> The dangerous part is "the mtime of the directory".  It would be much
> better to use the mtime of the +CONTENTS file, since it never changes
> *after* the package has been installed.

It actually does if you're using portupgrade (and probably
portmaster), see the @pkgdep entries.

Use +DESC, +COMMENT or +MTREE_DIRS instead.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer



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