Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:33:57 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> To: Novembre <novembre@gmail.com> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to determine the date a port is installed Message-ID: <20080611173357.GB70741@straylight.m.ringlet.net> In-Reply-To: <a01628140806110540t69f35f34p821d6b482f360b62@mail.gmail.com> References: <3b47caa90806102209w5161d96cjdd41d55f0315429c@mail.gmail.com> <20080611054125.GA15965@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <20080611073108.GA1184@straylight.m.ringlet.net> <a01628140806110540t69f35f34p821d6b482f360b62@mail.gmail.com>
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--K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Not really. This is a bit dangerous. > > > > The dangerous part is "the mtime of the directory". It would be much > > better to use the mtime of the +CONTENTS file, since it never changes > > *after* the package has been installed. >=20 > It actually does if you're using portupgrade (and probably > portmaster), see the @pkgdep entries. >=20 > Use +DESC, +COMMENT or +MTREE_DIRS instead. Yep. Sorry. Any of those would be a better candidate. I'd simply forgotten about port management tools modifying the dependencies in-place. G'luck, Peter --=20 Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@cnsys.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word. --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkhQDIUACgkQ7Ri2jRYZRVNGdgCdE8yb+RweUdUC1LIQlm5wKugQ bboAn0wbO/4xz4QVEfJp1Ldxov1TywY8 =DQ0b -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h--
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