Listing only manually installed package

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-06-26 12:04, Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote:
> From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
> Subject: Re: Listing only manually installed package
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 11:20:26 -0600
> 
>> $ grep '\s1$' /etc/setup/installed.db	# manual
>> $ grep '\s0$' /etc/setup/installed.db	# auto
>>
>> $ awk '1 == $3' /etc/setup/installed.db	# manual
>> $ awk '0 == $3' /etc/setup/installed.db	# auto
>>
>> I can't remember what the pristine state of the Base category packages are,
>> I've messed around with the setup files so much for so long.
> 
> I checked /etc/setup/installed.db on my 32bit and 64bit console but in
> each case all lines end with "0". Therefore,
> 
> From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
> Subject: Re: Listing only manually installed package
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:15:21 +0300
> 
>> AFAIK, there's no way to tell if a package was manually selected or not.
>> Cygwin's setup just don't store this information.
> 
> As you say, unfortunately there seems to be no way to tell if a
> package was installed manually or automatically.

Just checked the setup sources, so unless there is a bug, you are running a
setup version over 5 years old, or not running Cygwin setup, user_picked is part
of the package metadata that is still read from and written to installed.db.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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