Re: Unwanted summer gift from pkg

[email protected] Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:03:11 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 01:32:19PM +0200, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:

> > Or teach me to fish: how can I figure this out myself with pkg?
> > But without actually doing the upgrade, and that's a hard
> > requirement.

> I don't know of a finished solution, but with some shell-fu you can
> sort it out by using the '%rn' and/or '%dn' parameters with `pkg
> rquery` (man pkg-rquery for details).

Thank you. A good exercise for me to learn more about pkg, which I
need to do.

Meanwhile, the answer to my original problem will be in the other
subthread.

-- 
Ian