Upgrading 10.4 to 11.1

Robert Fitzpatrick robert at webtent.org
Tue May 1 11:29:27 UTC 2018


Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 17:18:46 -0400
> Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to delete and put back all the packages currently
>> installed?
>
> 	Here's one way using the handy pkg leaf alias to get packages with
> no dependencies.
>
> pkg leaf>  my_packages
> pkg delete -a
> pkg install `cat my_packages`
>
> 	If my_packages is large you may need to use xargs instead of
> backticks.
>

The pkg leaf doesn't seem to list all installed packages. It does not 
list apache24 or aspell or autoconf and more. At first I thought it was 
not listing packages not found in ports, but I see 
mysql51-server-5.1.73_2 on the list.

-- 
Robert



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