Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)

From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 21:00:25 -0800
On 3/11/16 9:01 AM, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:05:11PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:35:59PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
>>>> On 8 Mar 2016, at 15:14, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw_at_zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In terms of comparing packages, if you’re doing that visually then
>>>> you are likely to have problems anyway, unless your eyes and brain
>>>> work far better than most humans.  We can make that much easier by
>>>> providing libxo output in pkg and allowing you to have a simple jq
>>>> script that tells you what the differences are.
>>>>
>>> pkg can already expose the entire content of a package in json or ucl
>>> via:
>>> $ pkg info --raw --raw-format [json|json-conpact|yaml|ucl] name
>>
>> Exposing  the entire content of a package is not a root of cause.
>> Question in comapring of two different setup with different behaviour
>> and search cause of difference.
>>
>> Case of only a few monolitic packages is essentiality simple then case
>> of 1000 combined packages.
> 
> It would be nice to have pkg(8) show packages in tree form, with option
> to show just top-level meta packages or packages that have no meta.
> 
> Perhaps this is possible, but it's not obvious to me.
> 

https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/master/scripts/pkg_tree.sh

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Regards,
Bryan Drewery
Received on Sun Mar 13 2016 - 04:00:31 UTC

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