generate top-level pkg install list?
Gary Aitken
freebsd at dreamchaser.org
Thu Jan 28 04:57:29 UTC 2021
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
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