Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:09:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_deinstall: "delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z" Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906031108520.50563@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee00906030138w148c923j67f7422491bf5cb2@mail.gmail.com> References: <cf9b1ee00906030138w148c923j67f7422491bf5cb2@mail.gmail.com>
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> Hello list. > > I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some > argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in "delete > all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z" (and obviously their > dependancies)? just do pkg_info |cut -f 1 -d " " >/tmp/pkglist edit pkglist and delete lines X, Y and Z do pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` rm /tmp/pkglist ignore errors about package can't be deleted because X, Y or Z requires it. it's exactly what you want.
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