On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 06:07:44PM -0400, Henry Hu wrote: > Hi, > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:19 PM, 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! > > > > I've just tried pkg-devel 1.4.0.alpha3 and found something strange: when a > pkg is removed, pkgs which depend on it are not removed. > > For example: > > > sudo pkg remove libX11 > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) > Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages (of 0 > packages in the universe): > > Installed packages to be REMOVED: > libX11-1.6.2_2,1 > > The operation will free 6 MB. > > Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: > > sudo pkg remove -R libX11 > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) > Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages (of 0 > packages in the universe): > > Installed packages to be REMOVED: > libX11-1.6.2_2,1 > > The operation will free 6 MB. > > Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: > Seems like can you store somewhere you /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite so that we can fix your situation? Best regards, Bapt
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