pkgng - Package manager for FreeBSD >= 9.0¶

Author:	bleader

Synopsis ¶

New in version 1.2.

Manage binary packages for FreeBSD using ‘pkgng’ which is available in versions after 9.0.

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
cached	no		yes no	use local package base or try to fetch an updated one
name	yes			name of package to install/remove
pkgsite	no			specify packagesite to use for downloading packages, if not specified, use settings from /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
state	no	present	present absent	state of the package

# Install package foo
- pkgng: name=foo state=present

# Remove packages foo and bar
- pkgng: name=foo,bar state=absent

Note

When using pkgsite, be careful that already in cache packages won’t be downloaded again.