Subject: Re: package-management - was hardening a firewall machine
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/14/2001 17:16:11
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:59:07PM +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> > I know that I should remove anything that shouldn't be in there.   
> > BUT ....  having read the manual about package management I can see 
> > that I'm really not sure how to view a complete list of packages.  
> > And ... if I could I'm sure that the list would just scroll of the 
> > screen without giving me a chance of reading anything more than a 
> > small part of the packages list.
> > 
> > Any way round that one ?  And .. how do I delete the packages that I 
> > don't want ?
> > 
> > Thanks
pkg_info | less like was supposed, or I prefer to pipe it through sort
before I do that : pkg_info | sort | less. to remove a package, use
pkg_delete <packagename>.

Have fun,
Martin Weber
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