Re: pkg 1.4 freeze please test test test!

Hi guys,

Congrats, really good job.

How can i test package base? I didn't find any info about that.

Thanks.

On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_freebsd.org> 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
>