Date: 21 Nov 2002 12:57:32 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Liquid" <liquid@liquidonline.ca> Cc: "'Pascal Giannakakis'" <CapM@gmx.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Find abandoned packages Message-ID: <9eel9eaber.l9e@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <000801c2915e$be8907c0$6400a8c0@windows> References: <000801c2915e$be8907c0$6400a8c0@windows>
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"Liquid" <liquid@liquidonline.ca> writes: > If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed > essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it?s a dependency > though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that > too come to think of it. Please keep non-ASCII characters out of list mail; we're not all MSFT-compliant, yet. (The "?" above was a byte valued 222, octal.) From more info: http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/www/windows-chars.html Back to the question: The following is from my ports notes. It doesn't solve the problem, but should provide some clues. Try just "pkg_tree -v". -- To make list of ports listed from most-dependent to not dependent (best make order). pkg_tree -v | sed -e 's/\\__/ /' | tr '|' ' ' | sort -u | tr -d ' ' >|/tmp/pkgup To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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