pkgin

0.0.0 • Public • Published

node-pkgin

A Node.JS wrapper for pkgin specifically for SmartOS

Installation

npm install pkgin

Examples

Given

var pkgin = require('pkgin');

List

Get installed packages

pkgin.list(function(err, result) {
  console.log(result);
});

yields

[ { name: 'GraphicsMagick-1.3.16nb1',
    description: 'X application for displaying and manipulating images' },
  { name: 'autoconf-2.69',
    description: 'Generates automatic source code configuration scripts' },
  { name: 'bootstrap-mk-files-20120415',
    description: '*.mk files for the bootstrap bmake utility' },
    ...
]

Available

Show all available packages

pkgin.available(function(err, result) {
  console.log(result);
});

yields

[ { name: 'GConf-2.32.4nb4',
    description: 'Configuration database system used by GNOME' },
  { name: 'GeoIP-1.4.8',
    description: 'Find the country from any IP address' },
  { name: 'GeoLiteCity-201208',
    description: 'Free alternative for the GeoIP City database' },
  { name: 'GraphicsMagick-1.3.16nb1',
    description: 'X application for displaying and manipulating images' },
  { name: 'ImageMagick-6.7.6.6nb3',

Repositories

Show repositories in use on the system

console.log(pkgin.repositories);

yields

[ 'http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/sdc6/2012Q2/x86_64/All',
  'http://smartos.boundary.com/i386/' ]

Search

Search for available packages

pkgin.search('nginx', function(err, result) {
  console.log(result);
});

yields

[ { name: 'nginx-passenger-1.2.5',
    installed: false,
    description: 'Lightweight HTTP server and mail proxy server' },
  { name: 'nginx-passenger-1.0.15',
    installed: false,
    description: 'Lightweight HTTP server and mail proxy server' },
  { name: 'nginx-1.2.5',
    installed: false,
    description: 'Lightweight HTTP server and mail proxy server' },
  { name: 'nginx-1.0.15',
    installed: false,
  description: 'Lightweight HTTP server and mail proxy server' } ]

Usage

All functions can be optionally called like:

// search for nginx
pkgin.search('nginx', function(err result) {})
 
// optionally search like this
pkgin('search', 'nginx', function(err result) {})

License

MIT License

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npm i pkgin

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