PKG-UPDATE(8) BSD System Manager's Manual PKG-UPDATE(8)NAME
pkg update — update the local catalogues of the enabled package reposito‐
ries
SYNOPSIS
pkg update [-fq] [-r reponame]
pkg update [--{force,quiet}] [--repository reponame]
DESCRIPTION
pkg update is used for updating the local copy of the repository cata‐
logues from the remote package repository databases. Updates to cata‐
logues are normally downloaded only when the master copy on the remote
package repository is newer than the local copy.
The repository catalogues to be updated are defined in the pkg.conf(5)
file or by the entries in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos. See pkg.conf(5) for
details.
It is best practice to ensure your package repository catalogues are up
to date before doing any package installation (via pkg-install(8)) or
upgrades (via pkg-upgrade(8)). However, explicitly running pkg update is
not normally necessary. By default invoking either of pkg install or pkg
upgrade will cause repository catalogues to be updated automatically,
unless disabled by setting REPO_AUTOUPDATE to false in pkg.conf(5).
Signed repositories
If the repository catalogue is signed and PUBKEY is defined for the
repository, the signature will be verified after download. See
pkg.conf(5) for more information.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported by pkg update:
-q, --quiet
Force quiet output.
-f, --force
Force a full download of the repository catalogue without regard
to the respective ages of the local and remote copies of the cata‐
logue.
-r reponame, --repository reponame
Download the catalogue for the named repository only. This will
update only the named repository, irrespective of the configured
“active” status from repo.conf.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of pkg update.
See pkg.conf(5) for further description.
PKG_DBDIR
REPO_AUTOUPDATE
FILES
See pkg.conf(5).
SEE ALSOpkg_printf(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-repository(5), pkg.conf(5), pkg(8),
pkg-add(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8),
pkg-backup(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-convert(8),
pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8),
pkg-lock(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-rquery(8),
pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8),
pkg-stats(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8),
pkg-which(8)BSD October 30, 2014 BSD
