On 30/08/2012 22:44, John Nielsen wrote: > 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 } ?
Use pkg query - it is really quite powerful. This shows all non-autoremove packages as name-version: pkg query -e '%a == 0' '%n-%v' and this shows the port origin for all autoremove packages: pkg query -e '%a == 1' '%o' Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey
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