On Thu 02 Aug 2018 at 13:05:01 -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > I am not generating a list from what is installed. I am creating a list > of what I want to be installed. Sometimes I need to remove a bunch of > packages because pkg_rolling-replace doesn't handle dependencies > correctly. I then have to remove a package so that I can install the > correct version. Sometimes that means removing a bunch of packages that > I still want. I then have to run my script to see what's missing. I use pkg_chk to do just that. It has a list of packages I want installed (as in lang/gcc, archivers/zoo, etc) and checks what isn't installed, and builds/installs it. Since I run it in a chroot, I can remove anything I like and rebuild at my leasure; then replace stuff in the real system. -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- Wayland: Those who don't understand X \X/ rhialto/at/falu.nl -- are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly.
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