pkg 1.4 freeze please test test test!

From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:19:33 +0100
Hi all,

We are starting the release process of pkg 1.4, we want to have a better release
process than with every single previous version of pkg. For that we will need
you help!

pkg-devel has been updated to the latest version of pkg as of alpha2.

Changes you can expect in pkg 1.4 are the following:
- Loads of bug fixes
- Stricter checking of the path passed via the plist
- Removal of the bundled libyaml
- new --raw-format to chose the output format for info -R and search -R
- ABI is now follwing MACHINE_ARCH (freebsd:10:x86:64 become FreeBSD:10:amd64)
  the old ABI is available as a fallback in ALTABI
- pkg check now support a quiet mode
- new 3 way merge code ("stolen" from the fossil-scm) to allow automerging
  configuration files
- new _at_config keyword to mark a file as a config file (during
  upgrade/reinstallation it will try to merge the configuration with the one the
  user may have modified) an option AUTOMERGE is available to prevent
  automerging if automerge fails a .pkgnew file will be created along with the
  untouched user version of the configuration
- The update procedure has been improved and speed up a lot (in particular for
  machine with low resources)
- The unique identifier has been modified to be pkgname meaning now ports can be
  moved in new categories without having to be considered a different package
- Only libraries starting by lib* are added to the provided libraries
- General speed up of all operations

We need help in testing, but we also need help in writing regression tests !
The more we have tests the more stable the releases will be.

The release will also allow to be able to package base!

regards,
Bapt

Received on Tue Oct 28 2014 - 22:19:39 UTC

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