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Subject: Re: Upgrading 10.4 to 11.1
From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.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