[HEADSUP] pkgng 1.0-beta9 please test

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:12:42 +0200
Hi,

On behalf of pkgng crew, I'm happy to announce pkg 1.0-beta9
- changes:
  * query -f has been replaced by query -F when querying a package (file) for
consistency with pkg info
  * fix autoremove recursion
  * pkg set -o oldorigin:neworigin allow the user to modify the origin of a
packages (useful for MOVED)
  * several fixes on powerpc
  * pkg query evaluation expression now accept !=
  * pkg2ng is now able to migrate a local database without needed the ports tree
  * speed up pkg check by only loading the informations needed for the operation
it will do
  * code cleanup in the library
  * fix uname/gname lookup when creating packages
  * new periodic script for pkg audit
  * new keyword shlib, pkgng is able to load information about the needed shlibs
for a package (disable by default)
  * pkg info act as pkg info -a by default
  * new install timestamp in the package database, available using pkg query
"%t"
  * pkg updating can now take a port name as argument to only show related
UPDATING informations)
  * -q (quiet) for install, delete, upgrade, update and autoremove
  * new ABI detection string

Concerning the new ABI, to be able to determine which package can be installed
on which destination, pkgng couldn't rely on the simple:
os version/machine, because some arches have incompatible ABIs. Can compute on
its own the ABI, the string is the followin:
OSNAME:OSMAJORVERSION:OSARCH:OSCLASS(:...)
.. means the arch specific extensions.

which means on:
 * amd64: freebsd:9:x86:64
 * i386: freebsd:9:x86
 * arm: freebsd:9:arm:eb:oabi:softvp
etc

Be careful all the packages (.txz) files have to be rebuilt!!!
When binary upgradeing from pkg beta8, on amd64 do the following:
UNAME_m=freebsd:9:x86:64 pkg install -f pkg

on i386
UNAME_m=freebsd:9:x86:32 pkg install -f pkg

Bonus when run on a chroot/jail where ABI is different from the host, pkgng will
dynamically determine the destination ABI.

Please note that normally this will be the last beta version,

regards,
Bapt

Received on Fri Mar 30 2012 - 07:12:46 UTC

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