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====== pkg ======

The package management tool for %%FreeBSD%%.

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.

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%%''.