PKG_INFO(1)

NAME
pkg_info - a utility for displaying information on software packages

SYNOPSIS
pkg_info [-cdDfgGiIkLmopqrRsvVx] [-e package] [-l prefix] [-t template] [-W filename] [pkg-name ...]
pkg_info -a [flags]

DESCRIPTION
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.

OPTIONS
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.

-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).

-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).

-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.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
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>.

ENVIRONMENT
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.

FILES
/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.

SEE ALSO
pkg_add(1), pkg_create(1), pkg_delete(1), pkg_version(1), mktemp(3), mtree(8)

AUTHORS
Jordan Hubbard

CONTRIBUTORS
John Kohl <jtk@rational.com>

BUGS
Sure to be some.