pkg_info — display
information on software packages
pkg_info |
[-AaCcdfIKLMmPqRSstUvz]
[-D name[=value]]
[-E filename]
[-e pkg-name]
[-l str]
[-Q substring]
[-r pkgspec]
[pkg-name ...] |
The pkg_info command is used to dump out
information for packages, as created by
pkg_create(1), which may be
still packed up or already installed on the system with the
pkg_add(1) command.
The pkg-name may be the name of an installed
package, the pathname to a package distribution file, or a URL to a package
available through FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, or SCP. pkg_info
will try to complete pkg-name with a version number
while looking through installed packages. If no
pkg-name is specified,
pkg_info shows the names and one-line comments for
all installed packages except internal packages.
When browsing through uninstalled packages, running
pkg_info -I *.tgz will report a summary line for
each package, so that it is possible to run pkg_info
pkgname.tgz to obtain a longer package description, and
pkg_add -n pkgname.tgz to check that the
installation would proceed cleanly, including dependencies.
The following command-line options are supported:
-A- Show the names and one-line comments for all installed packages, including
internal packages. This option cannot be combined with
pkg-name arguments.
-a- Show the names and one-line comments for all installed packages except
internal packages. This option cannot be combined with
pkg-name arguments. It is the default when neither
options nor arguments are given.
-C- Show certificate information for signed packages.
-c- Show the one-line comment field for each package.
-D
name[=value]- Enforce extra options as given by name, similarly to
pkg_add(1).
SIGNER- List of trusted signers, separated by commas. Corresponds to list of
public keys under /etc/signify we want to
trust. Defaults to any key matching ‘*pkg’ for packages,
and any key matching ‘*fw’ for firmware.
snap- Force ‘%c’ and ‘%m’ to expand to
‘snapshots’, even on a release kernel.
unsigned- Allow opening unsigned packages without warnings/errors (necessary for
ports(7), automatically set
by the build infrastructure).
-d- Show the long-description field for each package.
-E
filename- Look for the package(s) that contains the given
filename. As a faster alternative, note that there
is a package, pkglocatedb, that contains a
locate(1) database of every
file in every package.
-e
pkg-name- This option allows you to test for the presence of another (perhaps
prerequisite) package from a script. If the package identified by
pkg-name is currently installed, return 0, otherwise
return 1. In addition, the names of any package(s) found installed are
printed to stdout unless turned off using the
-q
option.
The given pkg-name is actually a package
specification, as described in
packages-specs(7).
For example, pkg_info -e 'name->=1.3' will
match versions 1.3 and later of the name
package.
-e
pkgpath- Another variant of this option that uses a pkgpath instead. A pkgpath is a
location within the ports tree, as described in
pkgpath(7). For example,
pkg_info -e x11/kde/base3 will match any package
that was compiled according to
${PORTSDIR}/x11/kde/base3.
-f- Show the packing-list instructions for each package. See
pkg_create(1) and
package(5) for the various
annotations.
-I- Show the name and one-line comment (“index entry”) for each
package. This is done by default if neither options nor arguments are
given.
-K- Prefix file names with category keyword (e.g., @file, @lib). Always used
together with
-L.
-L- Show the files within each package. This is different from just viewing
the packing-list, since full pathnames for everything are generated.
-l
str- Prefix each information category header (see
-q)
shown with str. This is primarily of use to
front-end programs that want to request a lot of different information
fields at once for a package, but don't necessarily 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.
-M- Show the install-message file (if any) for each package.
-m- Show the names and one-line comments for all packages tagged as manually
installed, omitting those automatically installed as dependencies. This
option cannot be combined with pkg-name
arguments.
-P- Show the pkgpath(7) for each
package. You can easily build a subdirlist with this.
-Q
substring- Show the names of all packages in the first repository of the package
search path containing the substring in the stems of
their package names. A stem is a package name with all version and flavor
suffixes removed; see
pkg_add(1) for more details on
stems. If
-a is also specified, show the names of
all matching packages in all repositories instead.
-q- Be “quiet” in emitting report headers and such, just dump
the raw info (basically, assume a non-human reading).
-R- Show which packages require a given package.
-r
pkgspec- Check a list for a given pkgspec. The following
arguments are names of packages to verify. Exit status will be augmented
by 2 if none of the packages do match.
-S- Show the update signature for each package. The ‘update
signature’ is a unique tag showing the package name, a global
version number, and the version number of every run time dependency and
shared library used to build this package.
-s- Show an estimate of the total size of each package.
-t- Show the names and one-line comments for packages which are not required
by any other packages. This option cannot be combined with
pkg-name arguments.
-U- Show the deinstall-message file (if any) for each package.
-v- Turn on verbose output.
-z- Fuzzy listing option, often used together with
-m.
Only shows stems, flavors and branches information. To be reused with
pkg_add(1)
-l to recreate a package installation with
different versions and no ambiguity. Note that this intentionally does not
include firmware, as they are not handled by
pkg_add(1).
PKG_DBDIR- The standard package database directory,
/var/db/pkg, can be overridden by specifying an
alternative directory in the
PKG_DBDIR environment
variable.
PKG_PATH- This can be used to specify a colon-separated list of paths to search for
package files. The current directory is always searched first, even if
PKG_PATH is set. If
PKG_PATH is used, the suffix “.tgz”
is automatically appended to the pkg-name, whereas
searching in the current directory uses pkg-name
literally. Each entry consists of a directory name. URL schemes such as
FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, or SCP are also appropriate. The current directory may
be indicated implicitly by an empty directory name, or explicitly by a
single period (‘./’). Special
sequences ‘%a’, ‘%c’, ‘%m’,
‘%v’ will be expanded.
PKG_TMPDIR- Temporary area where package information files will be extracted, instead
of /tmp.
TRUSTED_PKG_PATH- Same semantics as
PKG_PATH, but it is searched
before PKG_PATH and waives any kind of signature
checking.
- /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/
- OpenBSD-specific information about individual
packages
- /var/db/pkg/
- database of installed
packages(7)
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>.
- Jordan Hubbard
- initial design
-
Marc Espie
- complete rewrite