On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:41:25PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:09:33AM -0500, Novembre wrote: > >> > Two questions: > >> > 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? > >> > >> ls -ld /var/db/pkg/<port>, use the mtime of the directory. > >> > >> > 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain > >> > date? > >> > >> Use a combination of find with the -mtime flag, and pkg_delete. > > > > Not really. This is a bit dangerous. > > > > The dangerous part is "the mtime of the directory". It would be much > > better to use the mtime of the +CONTENTS file, since it never changes > > *after* the package has been installed. > > It actually does if you're using portupgrade (and probably > portmaster), see the @pkgdep entries. > > Use +DESC, +COMMENT or +MTREE_DIRS instead.
Yep. Sorry. Any of those would be a better candidate. I'd simply forgotten about port management tools modifying the dependencies in-place. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 Thit sentence is not self-referential because "thit" is not a word.
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