Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Novembre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Two questions: 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date? Thanks a lot :) 1. Please don't cross-post. 2. ls -lt /var/db/pkg/*/+DESC piped to whatever language you want to analyze the dates will provide you the result you want, _unless_ either you modified the file(s) Cheers, -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
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 is possible, though not certain, that the mtime of the directory may change if another package is installed later which depends on this one - pkg_add(1) then updates some files, most notably +REQUIRED_BY, to reflect the new dependency, so that pkg_delete(1) may warn you later if you try to delete something that other packages depend on. Of course, the part with the mtime of the directory may change depends a bit on the filesystem used, but I find it easier to just rely on the +CONTENTS file that I'm sure should never change - unless I edit it by hand, but then all bets are off :) Novembre, you might want to try something like: # Change the working directory for easier path handling cd /var/db/pkg # Create a temporary file with the modification time set to the date # that you want to examine (in this case, May 15, 2008, 11:00am) touch -t 200805151100 /tmp/stamp # Find all +CONTENTS files that have a modification time later than that # of the stamp file find . -type f -name '+CONTENTS' -mnewer /tmp/stamp # Extend the previous command - get only the second component of the # file path, which is the name of the package directory, which coincides # with the name of the package :) find . -type f -name '+CONTENTS' -mnewer /tmp/stamp | cut -d/ -f2 That should give you a list; you may redirect it to a file or, if you are feeling really adventurous, just pipe it to | xargs pkg_delete :) 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 I had to translate this sentence into English because I could not read the original Sanskrit. pgpRMeph8IlP3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:31:08 +0300 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 file, since it never changes *after* the package has been installed. +CONTENTS can change if you use a tool like portmaster or portupgrade If you have portupgrade installed, pkg_glob can list packages installed before a specific date, so presumably pkg_deinstall can delete them directly since it support package globs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
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. -- Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
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. pgpKsLwZy90xN.pgp Description: PGP signature
how to determine the date a port is installed
Hi all, Two questions: 1) Is it possible to determine the date a port/package is installed? 2) How can I delete all the ports/packages installed after a certain date? Thanks a lot :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to determine the date a port is installed
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. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
