Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:52:39 -0700 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: generate top-level pkg install list? Message-ID: <e70febe9-7bbe-9eb6-edad-6b3a9cc58140@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <14a2618-5268-fa37-8a21-76dcd0a9bab4@fledge.watson.org> References: <23d9f371-b023-6647-4a63-b9e4a9e6ca61@dreamchaser.org> <14a2618-5268-fa37-8a21-76dcd0a9bab4@fledge.watson.org>
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On 1/27/21 3:43 PM, doug wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I'm having trouble figuring out how to generate a top level list of packages >> to install. In the past, I've worked off a manual list, but as I've added a >> few things over time I'm wondering if it's possible to generate such a list >> from the pkg output. ... >> Any ideas for how to generate a list of packages installed deliberately and >> in sequence? > pkg prime-origins. It's in alphabetic order. Date can come from: > > pkg info <name> | egrep "Name|Installed" Thanks. I had the pkg info part, it was the pkg query part I needed. I see prime-origins is an alias; it doesn't show up in pkg help unless you already know about it. Gary
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