PKG_ADMIN(1)

NAME
pkg_admin - perform various administrative tasks to the pkg system

SYNOPSIS
pkg_admin [-V] command [args ...]

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

-V  Print version number and exit.

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 checked, else only the named packages will be checked (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 filename -, 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 filename globbing mechanisms. This option implements matching of pkg-wildcards against arbitrary files, useful mainly in the build system 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 'unzip5.40'
        unzip-5.40.tgz
        unzip-5.41.tgz
        yui# pkg_admin lsall 'unzip5.41'
        unzip-5.41.tgz
        yui# pkg_admin lsbest 'unzip5.40'
        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

pmatch pattern pkg
    Returns true if pkg matches pattern, false else.

rebuild
    Rebuild the package database mapping from scratch, scanning subdirectories 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.

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_create(1), pkg_delete(1), pkg_info(1), packages(7)

HISTORY
The pkg_admin command first appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

AUTHORS
The pkg_admin command was written by Hubert Feyrer.