Thanks a lot, this worked like a charm! - Dan Naumov
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Wojciech Puchar<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello list. >> >> I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some >> argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in "delete >> all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z" (and obviously their >> dependancies)? > > just do > > pkg_info |cut -f 1 -d " " >/tmp/pkglist > edit pkglist and delete lines X, Y and Z > > do > > pkg_delete `cat /tmp/pkglist` > rm /tmp/pkglist > > ignore errors about package can't be deleted because X, Y or Z requires it. > it's exactly what you want. > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
