NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

pkgname

Specify a full pkgname, a pkgname without version, or a full URI.

If pkgname is a full package name with version, pkg_fetch will use “All” directory on a server for fetching.

If pkgname is a name without version, it will be fetched from “Latest” directory. You can force using of “Latest” directory for ambiguous cases adding @ to the pkgname.

If a full URI is supplied, required packages are also fetched from the same site when -R is specified.

-h

 

--help

Show help and exit.

-f

 

--force

Download a package even if it is recorded as installed. By default, pkg_fetch skips the packages which are recorded as installed.

-q

 

--noconfig

Do not read the configuration file - $PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf.

Remove existing packages if they are corrupt.

-R

 

--upward-recursive

Download the packages required by the given packages as well.

-v

 

--verbose

Turn on verbose output.

ENVIRONMENT

PACKAGEROOT

URI of the root of your preferred mirror site. Default is “ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org”. The site must have a directory “/pub/FreeBSD/ports/$arch/packages-$release/”.

PACKAGESITE

URI of the directory to fetch packages from. This variable precedes all other package site related variables, i.e. PACKAGEROOT and PKG_SITES. Use of this variable is discouraged. Use PKG_SITES.

PKG_SITES

List of URI's to fetch packages from separated by space. Each site directory must contain directories named “All” and “Latest”.

PACKAGES

Base directory where pkg_fetch saves downloaded packages. Default is “$PORTSDIR/packages”.

PKG_DBDIR

Alternative location for the installed package database. Default is “/var/db/pkg”.

PKG_FETCH

Alternative command for downloading files. Default is “/usr/bin/fetch -ao '%2$s' '%1$s'”, where every actual command line is composed as:

sprintf(PKG_FETCH, URI, path)

For example, try “wget -O '%2$s' '%1$s'” or “curl '%s' -o '%s'”.

PKG_TMPDIR

 

TMPDIR

(In that order) Temporary directory where pkg_fetch downloads files temporarily. If neither is not defined, “/var/tmp” is used.

PORTSDIR

Alternative location for the ports tree. Default is “/usr/ports”.

PKGTOOLS_CONF

Configuration file for the pkgtools suite. Default is “$PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf”.

FILES

/usr/ports

Default location of the ports tree

/usr/ports/packages/All

Default location to save downloaded files into.

/var/tmp

Default location to save downloaded files into temporarily.

$PREFIX/etc/pkgtools.conf

Default location of the pkgtools configuration file.

SEE ALSO

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