On 10 Aug, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>
>
>> On Aug 10, 2025, at 4:47 AM, Don Lewis <truck...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 8 Aug, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
>>> Karl Denninger <k...@denninger.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How many of us have done an "rm -rf" in the wrong place? Uh.....
>>>> same thing when you get down to it, right?
>>>
>>> The problem with this analogy is that "rm -rf" hasn't changed - the
>>> "-f" wasn't suddenly changed from something innocuous to "force".
>>>
>>> Pople using "pkg delete -af" are used to using it to delete all
>>> ports. I'll often do that when upgrading a server to a new major
>>> release - update the base OS, with the appropriate COMPAT and
>>> compat-libs, if required, then once that's working, chose a free
>>> moment to pkg-delete -af all the ports, and then BATCH rebuild them
>>> from a list of previously installed ports.
>>>
>>
>> It looks like you are making extra work for youself. When you
>> "pkg delete -af", you are erasing all the data about which ports you
>> carefully chosen to install and whether they were manually our
>> automatically installed. You need to record this info somewhere
>> before you "pkg delete".
>>
>> If you "pkg upgrade -af" after the version upgrade, all of this info
>> is preserved and selects the right ports to reinstall. You can
>> optionally follow this with "pkg autoremove" to clean up unused leaf
>> ports.
>
> I don't think he stated that he doesn't have a list of ports/pkgs that
> are wanted.
>
> Deleting everything, and then just adding the 4 or 5 things you want
> (which would end up with many more than 4-5 pkgs installed) is a
> pretty foolproof way to clean up a bunch of cruft. Unless of course
> your base OS also goes away.
>
4 or 5 is easy. My desktop:
%pkg info -a | wc -l
1411
%pkg prime-origins | wc -l
177
With 177 things, I want to make my life as simple as possible.
