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PKG_INFO(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual PKG_INFO(1) NAME pkg_info - display information on software packages SYNOPSIS pkg_info [-AaCcdfIKLMmPqRSstUvz] [-D name[=value]] [-E filename] [-e pkg-name] [-l str] [-Q substring] [-r pkgspec] [pkg-name ...] DESCRIPTION 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). ENVIRONMENT 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. FILES /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes/ OpenBSD-specific information about individual packages /var/db/pkg/ database of installed packages(7) 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>. SEE ALSO pkg_add(1), pkg_create(1), pkg_delete(1), bsd.port.mk(5), package(5), packages-specs(7), pkgpath(7) AUTHORS Jordan Hubbard initial design Marc Espie complete rewrite FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 May 29, 2022 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8