Date: Tue, 1 May 2018 01:00:40 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrading 10.4 to 11.1 Message-ID: <4859E693-65B7-4844-B1D7-96C2CA570477@mail.sermon-archive.info> 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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> On 30 April 2018, at 23:23, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> = wrote: >=20 > On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:18:46 -0400 > Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions = <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > wrote: >=20 >> Is there a way to delete and put back all the packages currently >> installed? >=20 > Here's one way using the handy pkg leaf alias to get packages = with > no dependencies. >=20 > pkg leaf > my_packages > pkg delete -a > pkg install `cat my_packages` >=20 > 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
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