# pkg_info pkg_install
Information for pkg_install-20150508:

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Comment:
Package management and administration tools for pkgsrc

Required by:
pkgin-0.8.0nb1

Description:
pkg_install contains the core package management and administration
utilities for pkgsrc, a multi-platform source and binary package
system developed and maintained by The NetBSD Project and volunteers
from around the globe.

The following tools are included:

pkg_add         install and upgrade binary packages
pkg_admin       perform various pkgsrc administrative tasks
pkg_create      create software package distributions
pkg_delete      delete installed packages
pkg_info        display information about installed or binary packages

For the following tools compatibility wrappers are included:

audit-packages  audit installed packages for security vulnerabilities
download-vulnerability-list     download the latest vulnerabilities list

Homepage:
http://www.pkgsrc.org/

Install notice:
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$NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.6 2014/12/05 14:31:07 schmonz Exp $

You may wish to have the vulnerabilities file downloaded daily so that
it remains current.  This may be done by adding an appropriate entry
to a user's crontab(5) entry.  For example the entry

# download vulnerabilities file
0 3 * * * /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_admin fetch-pkg-vulnerabilities >/dev/null 2>&1

will update the vulnerability list every day at 3AM. You may wish to do
this more often than once a day.

In addition, you may wish to run the package audit from the daily
security script.  This may be accomplished by adding the following
lines to /etc/security.local

if [ -x /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_admin ]; then
        /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_admin audit
fi

Alternatively this can also be acomplished by adding an entry to a user's
crontab(5) file. e.g.:

# run audit-packages
0 3 * * * /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_admin audit

Both pkg_admin subcommands can be run as as an unprivileged user,
as long as the user chosen has permission to read the pkgdb and to write
the pkg-vulnerabilities to /var/db/pkg.

The behavior of pkg_admin and pkg_add can be customised with
pkg_install.conf.  Please see pkg_install.conf(5) for details.

If you want to use GPG signature verification you will need to install
GnuPG and set the path for GPG appropriately in your pkg_install.conf.
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