pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/DESCR

pkg_install contains the core package management and administration
utilities for pkgsrc, a multi-platform source and binary package
system developed and maintained by The NetBSD Project and volunteers
from around the globe.

The following tools are included:

pkg_add		install and upgrade binary packages
pkg_admin	perform various pkgsrc administrative tasks
pkg_create	create software package distributions
pkg_delete	delete installed packages
pkg_info	display information about installed or binary packages
pkg_view	manage package views
linkfarm	manage symbolic links for package views

For the following tools compatibility wrappers are included:

audit-packages	audit installed packages for security vulnerabilities
download-vulnerability-list	download the latest vulnerabilities list
improve DESCR and COMMENT. 2003-12-22 01:23:35 +01:00			`pkg_install contains the core package management and administration`
			`utilities for pkgsrc, a multi-platform source and binary package`
			`system developed and maintained by The NetBSD Project and volunteers`
			`from around the globe.`
Improved DESCR and COMMENT. Changed HOMEPAGE. (Okay'd by jlam.) 2003-09-11 09:14:42 +02:00
improve DESCR and COMMENT. 2003-12-22 01:23:35 +01:00			`The following tools are included:`
Improved DESCR and COMMENT. Changed HOMEPAGE. (Okay'd by jlam.) 2003-09-11 09:14:42 +02:00
improve DESCR and COMMENT. 2003-12-22 01:23:35 +01:00			`pkg_add install and upgrade binary packages`
			`pkg_admin perform various pkgsrc administrative tasks`
			`pkg_create create software package distributions`
			`pkg_delete delete installed packages`
			`pkg_info display information about installed or binary packages`
			`pkg_view manage package views`
			`linkfarm manage symbolic links for package views`
Merge pkg_install-20090201 from pkg_install-renovation branch. - DB support is always included from libnbcompat if needed - pkg_view and linkfarm are not installed any more; they are not moved into the attic yet, so they can easily be installed as separte package - common configuration file to customise the behavior of various components; this supersedes the old audit-packages.conf - support for PKSC7 signatures (using X509 certs) and GPG signatures for packages in a secure way. See pkg_admin(8) for how to create them and pkg_install.conf(5) for the options to use them - audit-packages and download-vulnerability-list are wrapper scripts around pkg_admin. They try to mimic the classic options if used sanely. "pkg_admin audit" is now an order of magnitude faster than before - pkg_add uses libarchive and libfetch instead of external ftp and tar: - progress bar is currently missing for downloads - "pkg_add -" is no longer supported - no adhoc check for conficts between dependencies and already installed packages - "pkg_add -s" has been replaced with an option in pkg_install.conf, verification of plain detached GPG signatures is no longer supported - optional check for vulnerabilities before adding a package - if /var and /usr/pkg are on different fileystems it is twice as fast now - conflicts due to overlapping plists are checked before installation - pkg_add no longer plays with the process limits - pkg_add and pkg_delete have a new destdir option; scripts have to either be modified to use PKG_DESTDIR or should be disabled - pkg_add -u for now can't be used to update to the exact same version - internal "rm -rf" and "mkdir_p" code - all memory allocation failures are not explicitly fatal - if a file is not removed due to a failed checksum, still remove the entry from pkgdb 2009-02-02 13:34:59 +01:00
			`For the following tools compatibility wrappers are included:`

			`audit-packages audit installed packages for security vulnerabilities`
			`download-vulnerability-list download the latest vulnerabilities list`