how to determine the date a port is installed

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 11 05:41:25 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote:
> Two questions:
> 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed?

ls -ld /var/db/pkg/<port>, use the mtime of the directory.

> 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date?

Use a combination of find with the -mtime flag, and pkg_delete.

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