Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:02:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Richard Collyer <richard@blueapex.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date Ports Installed or Install Log Message-ID: <4E635AE3.6050505@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4E634D5D.5010209@blueapex.co.uk> References: <4E634D5D.5010209@blueapex.co.uk>
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On 04/09/2011 11:05, Richard Collyer wrote:
> I was trying to get CUPS working last night and installed
> gutenprint-cups but the make failed half way through - managed to get
> the printer working without it so no longer need it. As a result its
> installed a fair number of packaged (mostly X11 related) that I don't
> need on this headless server so I'd like to tidy them up.
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> Is there a way of finding out what date/order ports have been installed=
> or is the output that is sent over ssh logged anywhere so I can trace
> back and find out what packages I need to nerf.
Look at the file modification times in the directories under /var/db/pkg
-- that will tell you the last time the port was updated or installed.
Note: you can't rely on the modification time of the port directory
itself. Tools like portmaster(1) will create additional files within
the directory, which affects that timestamp. An example -- choosing one
of my installed ports pretty much arbitrarily:
lucid-nonsense:/var/db/pkg:% ls -la postgresql-client-9.0.4_1/
total 107
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 29 Jun 11 23:22 +COMMENT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 112912 Jul 9 10:23 +CONTENTS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1282 Jun 11 23:22 +DESC
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 831 Jun 11 23:22 +DISPLAY
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17550 Jun 11 23:22 +MTREE_DIRS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 771 Sep 3 09:19 +REQUIRED_BY
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8 Sep 3 09:19 ./
drwxr-xr-x 377 root wheel 377 Sep 3 09:22 ../
You can see that there are 3 different dates here:
Sept 3rd at 09:19 -- this is the last time I ran portmaster to
update my ports. Note that its the +REQUIRED_BY file that
has been updated. One of the ports that requires
postgresql-client was updated then.
Jul 11 at 23:22 -- most of the files were modified at this
time, and it is in fact when I last updated postgresql-client
on that machine.
Jul 9 at 10:23 -- +CONTENTS is a few days older than the other
files. This is because I installed postgresql-client from a
package I'd built in a separate jail a slightly earlier. This
is the date the package was built.
Therefore, in order to see the packages installed during your abortive
attempt to deal with gutenprint-cups, try:
# cd /usr/ports/packages
# ls -lrt */+COMMENT
That will list all your installed ports in order of the last time they
were updated, most recent ones last. You should be able to identify the
appropriate date range and work from there.
Cheers,
Matthew
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