Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 06:56:41 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@FreeBSD.org>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@FreeBSD.org>, Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Script to set/unset "automatic" status in PKGNG database Message-ID: <50405219.8090804@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <D1F2FA16-85D7-4365-B4BB-235C1A7D5327@jnielsen.net> References: <CFA2273E-4498-4A64-BC9F-CE5AA560409D@jnielsen.net> <503FDB2A.4000609@freebsd.org> <D1F2FA16-85D7-4365-B4BB-235C1A7D5327@jnielsen.net>
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On 30/08/2012 22:44, John Nielsen wrote:
> After dialog(1) exits the script has a list of packages to mark as
> automatic. Is there a non-SQL way to efficiently get the inverse?
> I.e. the set { all_packages - new_automatic_package_list } ?
Use pkg query - it is really quite powerful. This shows all
non-autoremove packages as name-version:
pkg query -e '%a == 0' '%n-%v'
and this shows the port origin for all autoremove packages:
pkg query -e '%a == 1' '%o'
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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