Hi!
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On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 06:53:16PM +0000, Jay wrote:

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>That helps, thanks.

>How about though for the scenario where I just installed something, and all its dependencies, without knowing what they are?

>Like:

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> cd /usr/ports/x11/kde

> sudo make install 

>Seems like maybe the install messages should be logged somewhere specific?
> maybe sudo make install | tee lookthroughthislater.txt I guess I should use tee or > more.
>Ah, this is close:

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> cd /var/db/pkg

> pkg_info -M *

That's about the same as pkg_info -M -a
>You know, at least it tells me for everything installed on my machine, not necessarily sorted by time or anything.
You can, of course, get an approximation by ls -tr on /var/db/pkg

(however already installed packages where dependencies are registered

get touched, too).
Also see script to record what happens on a make install/pkg_add

session.
> - Jay
Kind regards,
Hannah.