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pkg_admin(1)                NetBSD Reference Manual               pkg_admin(1)


NAME

     pkg_admin - perform various administrative tasks to the pkg system.


SYNOPSIS

     pkg_admin command args ...


DESCRIPTION

     This command performs various administrative tasks around the NetBSD
     Packages System. Available commands are:

     rebuild
            Rebuild the package database mapping from scratch, scanning subdi-
            rectories in /var/db/pkg for +CONTENTS files, parsing them and
            writing the resulting absolute pathnames together with the package
            they belong to into the package database.

            This option is intended to be used for upgrading from non-pkgdb-
            pkg_* tools to pkgdb-pkg_* tools, further manipulation of the
            pkgdb will be done by pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1) and pkg_create(1).

            Needs to be run as root.

     check [pkg ...]
            Use this command to check the files belonging to some or all of
            the packages installed on the local machine against their MD5
            checksum noted in their +CONTENTS files. If no additional argument
            is given, the files of all installed packages are installed, else
            only the named packages will be ckecked (wildcards can be used
            here, see pkg_info(1) ).

            The packages' +CONTENTS files will be parsed and the MD5 checksum
            will be checked for every file found. A warning message is printed
            if the expected checksum differs from the checksum of the file on
            disk.

     dump   Dump the contents of the package database, similar to pkg_info -F.
            Columns are printed for the keyfield used in the pkgdb - the file-
            name -, and the data field - the package the file belongs to.

     lsall /dir/pkgpattern

     lsbest /dir/pkgpattern
            List all/best package matching pattern in the given directory.
            Can be used to work around limitations of /bin/sh and other file-
            name globbing mechanisms. This option implemente matching of pkg-
            wildcards against arbitrary files, useful mainly in the build sys-
            tem itself. See pkg_info(1) for a description of the pattern.

            Example:

            yui# cd /usr/pkgsrc/packages/i386ELF/All/
            yui# ls unzip*
            unzip-5.40.tgz  unzip-5.41.tgz
            yui# pkg_admin lsall 'unzip*'
            unzip-5.40.tgz
            unzip-5.41.tgz
            yui# pkg_admin lsall 'unzip>=5.40'
            unzip-5.40.tgz
            unzip-5.41.tgz
            yui# pkg_admin lsall 'unzip>=5.41'
            unzip-5.41.tgz
            yui# pkg_admin lsbest 'unzip>=5.40'
            unzip-5.41.tgz
            yui# pkg_admin lsall /usr/pkgsrc/packages/i386ELF/All/'{mit,unproven}-pthread*'
            /usr/pkgsrc/packages/i386ELF/All/mit-pthreads-1.60b6.tgz
            /usr/pkgsrc/packages/i386ELF/All/unproven-pthreads-0.15.tgz


ENVIRONMENT

   PKG_DBDIR
     Where to register packages instead of /var/db/pkg.


FILES

     /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.byfile.db
     /var/db/pkg/<pkg>/+CONTENTS


SEE ALSO

     pkg_add(1), pkg_delete(1), pkg_info(1), pkg_create(1).


AUTHOR

     The pkg_admin command was written by Hubert Feyrer.


HISTORY

     The pkg_admin command first appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

NetBSD 1.5                       May 4th, 2000                               2