On 2014-10-28 19:19, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > 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 > Naming the option 'AUTOMERGE' when it stops the automatic merging, seems like a really bad idea. Either make it AUTOMERGE=false or NOAUTHMERGE or something. -- Allan Jude
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