Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:32:57 +0100 From: ian j hart <ianjhart@ntlworld.com> To: Thomas Stratmann <thomas.stratmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing unused packages? Message-ID: <3BA24D59.DC432A8A@ntlworld.com> References: <3BA24709.A1EBC186@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Thomas Stratmann wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I dumped into the need to remove all packages that are not required by
> any other, excluding some I am willing to keep (on a
> decide-foreach-basis). Is there any tool or option to the pkg_* tools to
> help me with this?
>
> I made this perl script
>
> open(PKGS, "ls /var/db/pkg |");
> while (<PKGS>) {
> chomp;
> $files = `ls /var/db/pkg/$_`;
>
> if (!($files =~ /REQUIRED_BY/g)) {
> print;
> print "\n";
> }
> }
>
> which, I hope, dumps me the bottom-leaf packages installed...
> If there is no such tool or option as mentioned above, please let me
> know if there are any problems with the script (I do not go for any
> price in beauty, as you can see...). If it works well, it might then be
> of use to some of you.
pkg_delete -i "*"
This should refuse to delete packages with dependencies even if you
respond yes. Of course I didn't test this :)
I've taken to packaging everything I build from ports. This way
you can just do...
pkg_delete -a
...then pkg_add from the built copies.
You'll see the advantage if you ever build KDE from ports (18hrs for
me!).
>
> Cheers
> Thomas Stratmann
>
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HTH
--
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