Solved How to find installed pkgs on non-active partition

[balanga]

Is there any way to get a list of FreeBSD pkgs installed on a partition where FreeBSD is not currently booted from?... a kind of

" pkg prime-list /dev/da0p5"

 

[SirDice]

You could load the database and query that. The package database is stored in /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite and is a regular SQLite database.

As far as I can tell there's no option to tell pkg(8) to look at a different file. But you could chroot(8) into the mounted filesystem and work from there.

 

[W.hâ/t]

man(1)
pkg(8)

 

[T-Daemon]

That's the third time you are asking this question and we ( balanga, SirDice and I)
are together once again

How to tell what pkgs are installed

Is there some way of being able to detect which pkgs have been installed on a disk which is mounted but not booted from? ie can you create a list by checking a mounted var/cache/pkg or perhaps you can use pkg-info redirected to mount point, or via chroot...

forums.freebsd.org

pkg info on non-boot disk/partition

If I have FreeBSD installed on a disk/partition from which I am not booting, is it possible to identify which pkgs have been installed?

forums.freebsd.org

 

[balanga]

That's the third time you are asking this question and we ( balanga, SirDice and I)
are together once again

How to tell what pkgs are installed

Is there some way of being able to detect which pkgs have been installed on a disk which is mounted but not booted from? ie can you create a list by checking a mounted var/cache/pkg or perhaps you can use pkg-info redirected to mount point, or via chroot...

forums.freebsd.org

pkg info on non-boot disk/partition

If I have FreeBSD installed on a disk/partition from which I am not booting, is it possible to identify which pkgs have been installed?

forums.freebsd.org

Oops!!!!

Sorry.

ps. just found that

pkg -c /mnt prime-list

works.