From 6f08e0850d8f9522a699b903cf49d55d2345321e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Velycko <petrvel@brloh.is>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:38:02 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] FreeBSD -- pkg tips and tricks

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 wireguard_enable="YES"
 wireguard_interfaces="wg0"
 ```
+
+# `pkg` package manager
+
+During my adventures I stumbled upon some useful commands for the builtin `pkg` package manager that I feel like could be useful to others.
+
+Reinstall all packages from the repository (in case you want to sync your system state to the repositories, including downgrading packages if needed, similar to Arch's `pacman -Suu`):
+```
+pkg upgrade -f
+```
+
+Show packages that depend on the given package (reverse dependencies):
+```
+pkg info -r PACKAGE
+```
+
+Show dependencies of a given package:
+```
+pkg info -d PACKAGE
+```
+
+Install a package from a given repository:
+```
+pkg install -r REPOSITORY PACKAGE
+```
+
+Update the system from a given repository:
+```
+pkg upgrade -r REPOSTIORY
+```