On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Julien Laffaye <jlaff...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 8/30/2012 11:19 PM, John Nielsen wrote:
>> I today noticed the "pkg autoremove" command for the first time, which does
>> much the same thing as pkg_cutleaves but relies on the "automatic" flag in
>> the pkgng database rather than user input to determine which "leaf" ports
>> can be removed. Unfortunately, the pkg2ng utility has no way of knowing
>> which old-style packages it converts were installed automatically as
>> dependencies, so they are all marked as non-automatic (i.e. user-requested).
>> In my case, this was not true for the majority of installed ports. Since I
>> really like this functionality, I decided to update my local package
>> database to match my preferences.
>>
>> Having succeeded, I decided a tool to make doing so easy could well benefit
>> others (as well as my future self). (Plus I wanted an excuse to play with
>> dialog(1) and "pkg query" a bit.) So here's the result. I'm not too attached
>> to the name. It shouldn't eat your package database or steal your lunch
>> money, but I'm not responsible if it does. Other than that, feedback is
>> welcome.
>>
> You want to use `pkg set -A` :)
> We make zero promises concerning the SQL schema in pkgng so it can change at
> every time and break your script.
Thanks. I looked for something like that but not hard enough obviously. I'll
change it.
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 } ?
JN
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