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[antolap]

How to list all packages in a category?

for example, If you haven't ports installed, how to list all packages within ftp category ?

 

[talsamon]

pkg search -o filezilla
ftp/filezilla                  Fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client
ftp/libfilezilla               C++ library for building platform-independent programs

Look in pkg help search.

 

[talsamon]

 pkg version -o |grep firefox
www/firefox                        =

(I have filezilla not installed)

 

[antolap]

I have made a mistake and changed the question:

for example if you want to list all packages in www category using pkg?
how to do without going to /usr/ports/www ?

 

[talsamon]

pkg query "%o" | grep x11

 

[talsamon]

pkg help help lists you all commands. pkg help command shows you a list of parameters of each command.

 

[antolap]

pkg query "%o" |grep www
33 lines

If I do ls /usr/ports/www I see tons of packages

 

[talsamon]

It only shows the installed packages.
I have ports-mgmt/psearch installed.

psearch -c www|wc -l
    3486

wc -l counts the lines.
Onyl show the entries: psearch -c category.

 

[antolap]

I have ports-mgmt/psearch installed.

yes, but psearch looks into /usr/ports/ so you must have ports installed

 

[talsamon]

Sorry, was wrong, psearch finds all e.g. letters like www. Not only the categories.
pkg search -o www/ should do it.

 

[tobik@]

Use pkg-rquery(8) instead: pkg rquery '%C %n-%v' | awk '/^www / { print $2 }'. There maybe duplicate entries in the output because of virtual categories.

 

[antolap]

Ok thanks!

last question:
how to show all categories using pkg?
I have tried with pkg rquery '%C' | sort -u, it works but result are not equal to directories in /usr/ports/
other ways to get categories list?

 

[talsamon]

What you mean with "using pkg". /usr/ports has a lot of subdirectories like files/ or Mk/ etc.

 

[antolap]

using this command pkg rquery '%C' | sort -u I see for example zope, which is not in /usr/ports

 

[tobik@]

using this command pkg rquery '%C' | sort -u I see for example zope, which is not in /usr/ports

Yes, zope is a virtual category. There is no corresponding ports directory but ports/packages are still classified as belonging to it.

Try this: pkg rquery '%o' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort -u

 

[antolap]

Ok thanks

 

[antolap]

One moment:
# pkg search filezilla
filezilla-3.24.0_2 Fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client
..

# pkg search -o filezilla
ftp/filezilla Fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS, and SFTP client
...


Using -o, how to show also the version of the package?

 

[obsigna]

how about:

sqlite3 -list /var/db/pkg/repo-FreeBSD.sqlite 'SELECT version FROM packages WHERE name="filezilla";'

The above command shows the version in the repository while the following command shows the installed version:

sqlite3 -list /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite 'SELECT version FROM packages WHERE name="filezilla";'

 

[talsamon]

pkg query "%o %v" firefox
www/firefox 57.0.2,1