PKG-SHELL(8)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so welcome to pkg-shell(8) — the pkg shell page from the System Manager's Manual — and its whole job is literally to interact with the pkg database. That's the vibe, bestie. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pkg shell

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

pkg shell is how you interact with the local or remote database through a sqlite3 console. It's giving direct-access main character energy, and because of that, extreme care should be taken when using this command. Like, seriously — extreme care, no cap. 😭

⚠️ bestie, this is the part where the manpage is not being dramatic: extreme care should be taken when using this command. 💀

Do not rely on this command. Fr fr. The underlying schema is subject to change on any release. Use pkg-query(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8), and pkg-set(8) instead for querying and modifying the database. Those commands are expected to have a stable API, unlike the database schema. Periodt. 👑

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

These environment variables affect the execution of pkg shell. See pkg.conf(5) for further description.

• PKG_DBDIR — the environment variable in the mix, bestie. 🫶

🎀 FILES 🎀

See pkg.conf(5). That's the whole file section, and it ate. 🍓

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

The whole squad, no skips, in the exact order:

• pkg_create(3), pkg_printf(3), pkg_repo_create(3), pkg_repos(3), pkg-keywords(5), pkg-lua-script(5), pkg-repository(5), pkg-script(5), pkg-triggers(5), pkg.conf(5)
• pkg(8), pkg-add(8), pkg-alias(8), pkg-annotate(8), pkg-audit(8), pkg-autoremove(8), pkg-check(8), pkg-clean(8), pkg-config(8), pkg-create(8), pkg-delete(8), pkg-fetch(8), pkg-help(8), pkg-info(8), pkg-install(8), pkg-key(8), pkg-lock(8), pkg-plugins(8), pkg-query(8), pkg-register(8), pkg-repo(8), pkg-repositories(8), pkg-rquery(8), pkg-search(8), pkg-set(8), pkg-shlib(8), pkg-ssh(8), pkg-stats(8), pkg-triggers(8), pkg-unregister(8), pkg-update(8), pkg-updating(8), pkg-upgrade(8), pkg-version(8), pkg-which(8)

xoxo, Debian 💖 — November 18, 2014 — PKG-SHELL(8) 🫶