pkg_info -- a utility for displaying information on software packages
pkg_info [-bcdDfgGiIkLmopPqQrRsvVx] [-e package] [-l prefix]
[-t template] [pkg-name ...]
pkg_info [-q] [-Q] -W filename
pkg_info [-q] [-Q] -O origin
pkg_info -a [flags]
The pkg_info command is used to dump out information for packages, either
packed up in files with the pkg_create(1) command or already installed on
the system with the pkg_add(1) command.
The following command line options are supported:
pkg-name ...
The named packages are described. A package name may either be
the name of an installed package, the pathname to a package distribution
file or a URL to an FTP available package.
-a Show all currently installed packages.
-b Use the BLOCKSIZE environment variable for output even when the
-q or -Q flag is present.
-v Turn on verbose output.
-p Show the installation prefix for each package.
-q Be ``quiet'' in emitting report headers and such, just dump the
raw info (basically, assume a non-human reading).
-Q Be ``quiet'' as above but print preface output with the package
name.
-c Show the (one line) comment field for each package.
-d Show the long description field for each package.
-D Show the install-message file for each package.
-f Show the packing list instructions for each package.
-g Show files that don't match the recorded checksum.
-i Show the install script (if any) for each package.
-I Show an index line for each package. This option takes precedence
over all other package formatting options.
-k Show the de-install script (if any) for each package.
-r Show the requirements script (if any) for each package.
-R Show the list of installed packages which require each package.
-m Show the mtree file (if any) for each package.
-L Show the files within each package. This is different from just
viewing the packing list, since full pathnames for everything are
generated.
-s Show the total size occupied by files installed within each package.
-o Show the ``origin'' path recorded on package generation. This
path intended to give an idea as to where the underlying port,
from which package was generated, is located in the FreeBSD Ports
Collection.
-G Do not try to expand shell glob patterns in the pkg-name when
selecting packages to be displayed (by default pkg_info automatically
expands shell glob patterns in the pkg-name).
-W For the specified filename argument show which package it belongs
to. If the file is not in the current directory, and does not
have an absolute path, then the PATH is searched using which(1).
-O For the specified origin argument list all packages having this
origin.
-x Treat the pkg-name as a regular expression and display information
only for packages whose names match that regular expression.
Multiple regular expressions could be provided, in that case
pkg_info displays information about all packages that match at
least one regular expression from the list.
-e pkg-name
If the package identified by pkg-name is currently installed,
return 0, otherwise return 1. This option allows you to easily
test for the presence of another (perhaps prerequisite) package
from a script.
-l str Prefix each information category header (see -q) shown with str.
This is primarily of use to front-end programs who want to
request a lot of different information fields at once for a package,
but don't necessary want the output intermingled in such a
way that they can't organize it. This lets you add a special
token to the start of each field.
-t template
Use template as the input to mktemp(3) when creating a ``staging
area''. By default, this is the string /tmp/instmp.XXXXXX, but
it may be necessary to override it in the situation where space
in your /tmp directory is limited. Be sure to leave some number
of `X' characters for mktemp(3) to fill in with a unique ID.
Note: This should really not be necessary with pkg_info,
since very little information is extracted from each package
and one would have to have a very small /tmp indeed to
overflow it.
-V Show revision number of the packing list format.
-P Show revision number of package tools.
Package info is either extracted from package files named on the command
line, or from already installed package information in
/var/db/pkg/<pkg-name>.
BLOCKSIZE If the environment variable BLOCKSIZE is set the block counts
will be displayed in units of that size block.
PKG_TMPDIR Points to the directory where pkg_info creates its temporary
files. If this variable is not set, TMPDIR is used. If both
are unset, the builtin defaults are used.
PKG_DBDIR Specifies an alternative location for the installed package
database.
/var/tmp Used if the environment variables PKG_TMPDIR and TMPDIR are
not set, or if the directories named have insufficient
space.
/tmp The next choice if /var/tmp does not exist or has insufficient
space.
/usr/tmp The last choice if /tmp is unsuitable.
/var/db/pkg Default location of the installed package database.
pkg_add(1), pkg_create(1), pkg_delete(1), pkg_version(1), mktemp(3),
mtree(8)
Jordan Hubbard
John Kohl <[email protected]>
Sure to be some.
FreeBSD 5.2.1 February 8, 2001 FreeBSD 5.2.1 [ Back ] | 