From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 28 04:57:29 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6084F70C7 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:57:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dreamchaser.org", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DR7WD6H7Kz4ZfL for ; Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:57:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 10S4vKn4042222; Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:57:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Subject: Re: generate top-level pkg install list? To: doug@safeport.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <23d9f371-b023-6647-4a63-b9e4a9e6ca61@dreamchaser.org> <14a2618-5268-fa37-8a21-76dcd0a9bab4@fledge.watson.org> From: Gary Aitken Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:52:39 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14a2618-5268-fa37-8a21-76dcd0a9bab4@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [192.168.151.101]); Wed, 27 Jan 2021 21:57:20 -0700 (MST) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4DR7WD6H7Kz4ZfL X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@dreamchaser.org designates 66.109.141.57 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@dreamchaser.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.30 / 15.00]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@dreamchaser.org]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; REPLYTO_ADDR_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dreamchaser.org]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[66.109.141.57:from:127.0.2.255]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[66.109.141.57:from]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-1.000]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; ASN(0.00)[asn:21947, ipnet:66.109.128.0/19, country:US]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 04:57:29 -0000 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 | 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