Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 23:46:52 -0800 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: doug@safeport.com, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: generate top-level pkg install list? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1sLTjA9Pf3uLadYiYK3_QsUPYceQY56mEKUpahNXb%2BQ2Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e70febe9-7bbe-9eb6-edad-6b3a9cc58140@dreamchaser.org> References: <23d9f371-b023-6647-4a63-b9e4a9e6ca61@dreamchaser.org> <14a2618-5268-fa37-8a21-76dcd0a9bab4@fledge.watson.org> <e70febe9-7bbe-9eb6-edad-6b3a9cc58140@dreamchaser.org>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 8:57 PM Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> wrote: > 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 Seems like a note in pkg-message for the pkg port about the alias file would be a good idea. I just stumbled onto it last week, myself. -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683
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