Quick glance at OpenBSD's pkg_* tools

OpenBSD packages is our way of installing 3rd party applications build from the ports tree

A package is a gzipped tar file

Some special contents

+CONTENTS contains information about each file in the pkg

+DESC contains a description about the pkg

Package creation is done from the ports tree with pkg_create(1)


Package management is done with pkg_add(1) , pkg_delete(1) and pkg_info(1)