Upgrading 10.4 to 11.1

[Doug Hardie]

> On 30 April 2018, at 23:23, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:18:46 -0400
> Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at 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.

Interesting.  The leaf command is not documented in the -l list or in the man page.  However, it works just as described above.

-- Doug