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the option in pkg_create. Now preserved files start with a . and are named .<filename>.<pkgname>.backup so that their purpose is more clear. Note that just using the preserve option without proper pkg_deps is also foolish since packages being deleted in the incorrect order with preserve on can generate some odd results.
This is the pkg_install suite of tools for doing maintainance of software "packages". More documentation is available in the man pages for each individual command. This code was written by Jordan Hubbard for FreeBSD, snatched and mildly reshaped by John Kohl in NetBSD and the changes taken back into FreeBSD again by Jordan, who then proceeded to add another couple of dozen features on top. Whee! :-)