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PKG-REGISTER(8) System Manager's Manual PKG-REGISTER(8) NAME pkg register -- register a package into the local package database SYNOPSIS pkg register [-dltN] [-f plist-file] -m metadatadir -i input-path pkg register [-dltN] -M metadatafile pkg register [--{debug,test,no-registration}] [--relocate location] [--plist plist-file] --metadata metadatadir --root input-path pkg register [--{debug,test,no-registration}] [--relocate location] --manifest metadatafile DESCRIPTION pkg register is used for registering a package into the local package database. pkg register assembles a full set of package metadata from various pos- sible inputs, and writes the metadata into the package registry data- base. This is one of the final steps when installing software from ports: the package files are installed into the filesystem, and then pkg register is called to record what was installed into the package database. pkg register can derive package metadata from a number of different sources: • The package manifest • The metadata directory • Direct analysis of files installed by the package The package manifest is a UCL format listing of package metadata. It can contain all of the necessary metadata needed by the package, but the more usual approach is to provide selected items via the manifest, and fill in the rest, either from legacy files such as pkg-plist, +DESC, +DISPLAY or +MESSAGE which are optional and mostly located in the metadatadir given as the argument to the -m option. Other information about shared library requirements and the packages necessary to provide them may be obtained by direct analysis of the files installed by the package. File checksums may be left blank in the input metadata: all checksums will be recalculated from the in- stalled or staged files overwriting the input. This is the mechanism currently used when installing software directly from the ports tree, as it provides reasonable backwards compatibility with the old style pkg_add(1) command. Reading in a complete and comprehensive manifest from one file is a simpler alternative, but requires all the metadata to have been assem- bled beforehand. Direct analysis of the installed files can be suppressed by use of the -t option. This is intended for testing the functionality of pkg(8) itself, and should not be routinely used. OPTIONS The following options are supported by pkg register: -A, --automatic Mark the package to be automatically removed if no other packages depend on it. For more information please refer to pkg-autoremove(8). -d, --debug Enable debugging output. -N, --no-registration Disable registration in the package database, the files will be installed, the scripts will be executed. -f plist-file, --plist plist-file Specifies a pkg-plist style packing list file. -i input-path, --root input-path Specifies the package input path or staging directory. -M manifest, --manifest manifest Specifies the package manifest file. Use of this option means that the only file which will be used as a source of package metadata is the named manifest file. The -M option is mutually exclusive with -m. -m metadatadir, --metadata metadatadir Specifies the metadata directory to use when registering the package. This directory will hold the package manifest, and optionally may contain a number of other old-style metadata input files. The -m option is mutually exclusive with -M. -t, --test Enable testing mode. This allows pkg register to update the package database without performing any of the usual analyses of files installed by the package. This option should only be used with caution, and preferably only for the intended purpose of performing regression tests on pkg(8) itself. --relocate location Annotates the package as having been relocated to location, which is an alternate system root. This is an experimental feature and intended for cross-architecture package manage- ment. There is no corresponding single letter option. (DEPRECATED) ENVIRONMENT The following environment variables affect the execution of pkg register. See pkg.conf(5) for further description. PKG_DBDIR FILES See pkg.conf(5). SEE ALSO pkg_create(3), pkg_printf(3), pkg_repo_create(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-keywords(5), pkg-lua-script(5), pkg-repository(5), pkg-script(5), pkg-triggers(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8), pkg-add(8), pkg-alias(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-key(8), pkg-lock(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-repositories(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8), pkg-triggers(8), pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8), pkg-which(8) FreeBSD ports 15.0 March 22, 2023 PKG-REGISTER(8)
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