Re: Script to set/unset "automatic" status in PKGNG database

On 30/08/2012 22:44, John Nielsen wrote:
> After dialog(1) exits the script has a list of packages to mark as
> automatic. Is there a non-SQL way to efficiently get the inverse?
> I.e. the set { all_packages - new_automatic_package_list } ?

Use pkg query - it is really quite powerful.  This shows all
non-autoremove packages as name-version:

pkg query -e '%a == 0' '%n-%v'

and this shows the port origin for all autoremove packages:

pkg query -e '%a == 1' '%o'

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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