pkg.conf —
system-wide package system configuration
The file
/etc/pkg.conf contains system-wide
options related to package handling, as a list of
‘keyword=value’ lines.
In particular, the base system “installation-and-update” shell
scripts record the URL used for the installation as
installpath.
pkg_add(1) can then
add or replace packages from the same location straight after the install.
Currently defined options are as follows:
- fullwidth
- Set to yes if you really want to use the
full width of the terminal for the progressmeter.
- loglevel
- pkg_add(1) and
pkg_delete(1)
will syslog(3)
installations, updates and deletions by default. Set to
0 to avoid logging entirely. Levels
higher than 1 may log more information in
the future.
- installpath
- URL to package repository updated during installation. Used for accessing
packages if the environment variable
PKG_PATH is not defined and no further
options are defined.
Special sequences ‘%a’, ‘%c’,
‘%m’, ‘%v’ will be expanded to ‘package
architecture’, ‘OS version or snapshots’,
‘full mirror path’ and ‘OS version’
respectively. If a bare hostname is given, the standard /pub/OpenBSD path
will be used automatically, e.g.
installpath = http://somesite.example.org/updates/%c/%a/
installpath += openbsd-mirror.example.org
should work.
- nochecksum
- Set to yes to waive checksums during
package deletions.
- ntogo
- Set to yes to display (done/total) number
of package messages.
Each option uses a separate line, and follows the following template:
A list of values can also be specified over several lines using the variation:
keyword += value
keyword += value
...
Keywords are case-insensitive.
Blank lines and comment lines (introduced by a #) are ignored.
Unknown keywords are ignored.
/etc/pkg.conf
pkg_add(1),
pkg_create(1),
pkg_delete(1),
pkg_info(1),
pkg_check(8)
The
pkg.conf mechanism and format first
appeared in
OpenBSD 4.8.
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