Re: pkg 1.4 freeze please test test test!

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:03:21AM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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

Thanks fixed in the git master will be in alpha4
Actually you have lots of locked packages so on alpha4 pkg will just tell you
that libX11 cannot be removed because of locks :)

regards,
Bapt