PKG-SET(8) BSD System Manager's Manual PKG-SET(8)NAME
pkg set — modify information in the installed database
SYNOPSIS
pkg set [-a] [-A [01]] [-n oldname:newname] [-o oldorigin:neworigin] [-y]
[-Cgix] pkg-name
pkg set [--all] [--automatic [01]] [--change-name oldname:newname]
[--change-origin oldorigin:neworigin] [--yes]
[--{case-sensitive,glob,case-insensitive,regex}] pkg-name
DESCRIPTION
pkg set is used to modify information concerning installed packages. pkg
set should always be used with caution.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported by pkg set:
-A 01, --automatic 01
Set automatic flag for the package: 0 is not automatic, 1 is
automatic. This affects the operation of pkg-autoremove(8).
-a, --all Match all installed packages.
-C, --case-sensitive
Make the standard or the regular expression (-x) matching
against pkg-name case sensitive.
-g, --glob
Match pkg-name as a globbing expression.
-i, --case-insensitive
Make the standard or regular expression (-x) matching against
pkg-name case insensitive. This is the default, unless modi‐
fied by setting CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH to true in pkg.conf.
-n oldname:newname, --change-name oldname:newname
Change the package name of a given dependency from oldname to
newname.
-o oldorigin:neworigin, --change-origin oldorigin:neworigin
Change the port origin of a given dependency from oldorigin to
neworigin. This corresponds to the port directory that the
package originated from. Typically, this is only needed for
upgrading a library or package that has MOVED or when the
default version of a major port dependency changes. (DEPRE‐
CATED) Usually this will be explained in /usr/dports/UPDATING.
Also see pkg-updating(8) and EXAMPLES.
-x, --regex
Match pkg-name as a regular expression according to the "mod‐
ern" or "extended" syntax of re_format(7).
-y, --yes Assume yes rather than asking for confirmation before package
autoremoval.
If neither the -g nor -x options are used, the default is to match pkg-
name exactly.
FILES
See pkg.conf(5).
EXAMPLES
Change a package from automatic to non-automatic, which will prevent
autoremove from removing it:
% pkg set -A 0 perl-5.14
Change a package from non-automatic to automatic, which will make
autoremove allow it be removed once nothing depends on it:
% pkg set -A 1 perl-5.14
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables affect the execution of pkg set. See
pkg.conf(5) for further description.
CASE_SENSITIVE_MATCH
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-shell(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8),
pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8),
pkg-which(8)BSD February 4, 2015 BSD
