Re: pkg 1.5.0 is out

Rapid evolution of pkgng! :D Thanks for your great work!

On 4/14/15, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Final pkg 1.5.0 has been released.
>
> What happened since pkg 1.4.0:
> - Initial provides/requires support
> - Lots of new regression tests have been added
> - Initial support for OS X
> - Initial support for NetBSD/EdgeBSD
> - Update most of the bundled third party software has been updated to their
>   latest version
> - Improve the messages reported by pkg
> - Properly support file flags
> - Implement argument support for custom keywords
> - Extend setting credential via plist to allow to set file flags
> - Make credential syntax via plist more flexible allow to only defines the
> first
> - pkg updating now supports case insensitive matching
> - pkg create now support a verbose mode
> - Add an option to change the default on question, until now the default
> answer
>   was "No" with that option set it would be "Yes"
> - Lots of fixes to pkg audit -r
> - Global memory usage reduction and speed up
> - Improvements and cleanup on pkg alias
> - pkg annotate --show --all has been fixed
> - Make pkg.h C++ friendly
> - Lots of improvements in the solver
> - Lots of fixes on 32 bits platforms
> - Add support for: pkg create -M ./plop.ucl -p ./plop.plist
> - New pkg -r <rootdir> that will install in the given rootdir without
> chrooting
> - Export PKG_ROOTDIR to scripts allow to make them as portable as possible
> - Stop trying to remove all installed package with the argument of pkg
> delete is
>   a local file
> - Be more explicit about why the solver it going to reinstall, remove or
> upgrade
>   (when possible)
> - Plenty of bug fixes
> - Plenty of new bugs
> - pkg shlibs now support -q
> - pkg lock gained a new --has-locked-packages option
> - pkg now resumes fetch if possible
> - CONSERVATIVE_UPGRADE is now on by default
> - pkg alias now have a -l argument to list aliases
> - A sample pkg.conf is now installed with a bunch of aliases set by default
> - Fix the backup script to properly export an sql which will be importable
> via
>   pkg shell and/or sqlite out of box
>
> I would like to thank anyone that has been contributing to pkg to make this
> release happen (via code, bug report, feature request, testing and
> documentation)
>
> For pkg 1.6.0 among other things and depending on the time, here is what we
> do
> plan to work on:
> - Safe cherry-picking of upgrades (aka: pkg upgrade something)
> - New context dependant messages:
>   * messages that only appears during upgrades
>   * messages that only appears on deinstall
>   * messages that only appears on install
> - Extend provides/requires to support flexible dependencies
> - Linux package backend (?)
> - Allow multiple versions of a given package in a repo
> - Add more regression tests
> - Improve documentation
> - <please add here you personal ideas>
>
> Best regards,
> Bapt
>