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Date:      Tue, 01 May 2018 07:29:24 -0400
From:      Robert Fitzpatrick <robert@webtent.org>
To:        Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
Cc:        goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com,  Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading 10.4 to 11.1
Message-ID:  <5AE84F94.2050604@webtent.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180501072305.faafbe6cf2a13d3e24156568@sohara.org>
References:  <5AE783D2.40004@webtent.org> <20180501001407.7752facafb7593fd6aa252c1@gmail.com> <5AE78836.30106@webtent.org> <20180501072305.faafbe6cf2a13d3e24156568@sohara.org>

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Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:18:46 -0400
> Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions<freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to delete and put back all the packages currently
>> installed?
>
> 	Here's one way using the handy pkg leaf alias to get packages with
> no dependencies.
>
> pkg leaf>  my_packages
> pkg delete -a
> pkg install `cat my_packages`
>
> 	If my_packages is large you may need to use xargs instead of
> backticks.
>

The pkg leaf doesn't seem to list all installed packages. It does not 
list apache24 or aspell or autoconf and more. At first I thought it was 
not listing packages not found in ports, but I see 
mysql51-server-5.1.73_2 on the list.

-- 
Robert




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