BPKG(8) BSD System Manager's Manual BPKG(8)NAMEbpkg — a simple tool for displaying information about ports.
SYNOPSISbpkg [-abDdEeFfgIijkLMmOopQqrswz] pkg-name ...
bpkg [-BCchltvZ]
DESCRIPTIONbpkg is a simple tool written in sh(1) for displaying information about
ports. Its main goal is to provide a quick way to display all kinds of
useful info about installed ports and the whole ports tree.
OPTIONS
The following command line arguments are supported:
-a show what dependent ports are, and are not installed. [portmaster
required]
-B create backup packages in /usr/ports/packages/bpkg from all locally
installed ports.
-b create backup package in /usr/ports/packages/bpkg from a locally
installed port.
-C clean all distfiles in /usr/ports/distfiles/* and also all work
directories of the ports tree /usr/ports/*/*/work [no arguments]
-c clean all distfiles in /usr/ports/distfiles/* [no arguments]
-D display size of port's source files.
-d display description of the port.
-E display available package in the FreeBSD repository. [-CURRENT]
-e configure OPTIONS for the specified port.
-F browse www.freshports.org port's entry. [text WWW browser required]
-f show the packing list instructions for the port.
-g show files that do not match the recorded checksum in the specified
installed port.
-h display help. [no arguments]
-i display short description of the port [priority -- installed ports]
-I display info about the port.
-j search the ports tree according to ports' descriptions.
-k show the deinstall script (if any) for the installed port.
-L show the files within the installed port.
-l display short info about all installed ports. [no arguments]
-M show the install-message file for the installed port.
-m display port's Makefile.
-O remove config OPTIONS for the specified port.
-o display config OPTIONS for the specified port.
-p search the ports tree and display short info about each port.
-Q display available package in the FreeBSD repository. [-STABLE]
-q display available package in the FreeBSD repository. [-RELEASE]
-r show the list of all port's dependencies.
-s show the total size occupied by files installed within the port.
-t list all installed ports with dates of their installation. [no argu‐
ments]
-w which installed port owns the specified file.
-v list all installed ports and possible updates. [no arguments]
-Z display all missing dynamic object dependencies. [no arguments]
-z display dynamic object dependencies for the specified port.
EXIT STATUS
The bpkg utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
The following is an example of a typical usage of the bpkg command:
$ bpkg-i foo
Display short description about port foo.
$ bpkg-p foo.*
Display all ports matching the regular expression.
$ bpkg-t | head
Display 10 most recently installed ports.
$ bpkg-b 'foo bar'
Create backup packages of foo and bar in /usr/ports/packages/bpkg direc‐
tory.
SEE ALSOpkg_add(1), pkg_create(1), pkg_delete(1), pkg_info(1), pkg_version(1),
ports(7)AUTHORS
Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com>
BSD February 6, 2012 BSD
