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--- pkg [2020/12/28 12:45] – Refer people to the right page. RonaldKlop
+++ pkg [2023/01/29 14:12] (current) – &manpath=freebsd-ports GrahamPerrin
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-====== PKG ======
+====== pkg ======
-Pkg is the Next Generation package management tool for %%FreeBSD%%. It is the replacement for the current
+The package management tool for %%FreeBSD%%.
-pkg_info/pkg_create/pkg_add tools that ports use to register local packages and which provide remote
-packages. Its main goals are to facilitate remote binary package upgrades. It also works with ports
-without remote binary packages.
-:!: The content of this page was outdated and misleading so it has been deleted
+Essential manual pages:
+  * [[https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=7&manpath=freebsd-release|pkg(7)]] – integral to %%FreeBSD%%, primarily for bootstrapping
+  * [[https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports|pkg(8)]] – best known, with features available as a result of bootstrapping.
-Up to date information can be found on the [[https://github.com/freebsd/pkg|GitHub page]].
+In %%FreshPorts%%:
+  * https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg/
+In %%GitHub%%:
+  * https://github.com/freebsd/pkg
+  * issues and pull requests (PRs) that are complementary to bug reports (BRs also known as PRs) in Bugzilla.
+===== Hints =====
+[[https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-alias&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports|pkg-alias(8)]] is amongst the valuable pages that are sometimes overlooked.
+[[https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkg-provides/|ports-mgmt/pkg-provides]] can be plugged in to ''%%pkg%%''. An example:
+<code>
+% pkg provides bin/mkntfs$
+Name    : fusefs-ntfs-2017.3.23
+Desc    : Mount NTFS partitions (read/write) and disk images
+Repo    : FreeBSD
+Filename: usr/local/sbin/mkntfs
+%
+</code>
+– for more examples, see [[https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg-provides&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-ports|pkg-provides(8)]].
+BRs can be [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?component=Individual%20Port%28s%29&list_id=28394&product=Ports%20%26%20Packages&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&short_desc=ports-mgmt%2Fpkg&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr|found]] and created through %%FreshPorts%%.
+===== History =====
+''%%pkg_info%%'', ''%%pkg_create%%'' and ''%%pkg_add%%'' were used for registration of local packages and provision of remote packages.
+''%%pkgng%%'' provided a new generation (//ng//) of commands.
+''%%pkgng%%'' became known as ''%%pkg%%''.