Re: How to reinstall *ALL* pkgs

On Tue, 17 Oct 2023, at 04:14, paul beard wrote:
> I have done something like this…
> ls /var/db/pkg/ | sed -r 's/(.*)-[0-9]/\1\ /g' | cut -f1 -d" "  
>
> and pass that to pkg or to a file to clean it up (the sqlite databases 
> are in there and don't need installing via pkg). 

I use this to track only the leaf packages, what's explicitly been installed
and the others will be pulled in automatically.

NB make sure you're in the root /bin/sh & a console, not an (x)term
as this will remove *all* packages, including xorg window manager,
preferred shell etc.

# pkg prime-origins | sort | uniq > /etc/packages.lst
### edit and amend as required

### force-delete all existing packages, rebootstrap & install
# pkg delete -fy \*
# pkg bootstrap -f
# pkg install -r FreeBSD `cat /etc/packages.lst`

A+
Dave