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Jordan K. Hubbard


@(#)pkg_info.1

.Dd November 25, 1994 .Dt pkg_info 1 .Os FreeBSD 2.0 .Sh NAME .Nm pkg_info .Nd a utility for displaying information on software packages. .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm pkg_info .Op Fl cdDikrRpLqImv .Op Fl e Ar package .Op Fl l Ar prefix .Ar pkg-name [pkg-name ...] .Nm pkg_info .Fl a .Op Ar flags .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm command is used to dump out information for packages, either packed up in files or already installed on the system with the .Xr pkg_create 1 command. .Sh OPTIONS The following command line options are supported. l -tag -width indent t Ar 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. t Fl a Show all currently installed packages. t Fl v Turns on verbose output. t Fl p Show the installation prefix for each package. t Fl q Be ``quiet'' in emitting report headers and such, just dump the raw info (basically, assume a non-human reading). t Fl c Show the comment (one liner) field for each package. t Fl d Show the long description field for each package. t Fl D Show the install-message file for each package. t Fl f Show the packing list instructions for each package. t Fl i Show the install script (if any) for each package. t Fl k Show the de-install script (if any) for each package. t Fl r Show the requirements script (if any) for each package. t Fl m Show the mtree file (if any) for each package. t Fl L Show the files within each package. This is different from just viewing the packing list, since full pathnames for everything are generated. t Fl e Ar pkg-name If the package identified by .Ar 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. t Fl l Ar str Prefix each information category header (see .Fl q ) shown with .Ar 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 Fl t Ar template Use .Ar template as the input to .Xr mktemp 3 when creating a ``staging area.'' By default, this is the string

a /tmp/instmp.XXXXXX , but it may be necessary to override it in the situation where space in your

a /tmp directory is limited. Be sure to leave some number of `X' characters for .Xr mktemp 3 to fill in with a unique ID. d -filled -offset indent -compact 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

a /tmp indeed to overflow it. .Ed .Sh TECHNICAL DETAILS Package info is either extracted from package files named on the command line, or from already installed package information in

a /var/db/pkg/<pkg-name> . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr pkg_add 1 , .Xr pkg_create 1 , .Xr pkg_delete 1 , .Xr mktemp 3 , .Xr mtree 8 . .Sh AUTHORS l -tag -width indent -compact t "Jordan Hubbard" most of the work t "John Kohl" refined it for NetBSD .El .Sh BUGS Sure to be some.