From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 26 21:21:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BC56E4 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:21:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B2F124A9 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.2.117.99]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9QLLrsm000779 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:21:53 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.8.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk r9QLLrsm000779 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/r9QLLrsm000779; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none (unprotected policy) Message-ID: <526C3269.8080003@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:21:45 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PKGNG: ability to view pkg-plist? References: <526AA934.10405@pcbsd.org> <526AEB3A.3020004@FreeBSD.org> <526B0156.1010004@pcbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <526B0156.1010004@pcbsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="09kcNwjgxULcqgm0vXfc9tf7rVWxnwB7J" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.8 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:21:58 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --09kcNwjgxULcqgm0vXfc9tf7rVWxnwB7J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 26/10/2013 00:40, Ken Moore wrote: > Is a general way to list the files in a package that important for > others, or is my case very specialized? I can think of a few situations= > where it might be a nice option to search for package(s) on the repo > that contains a particular binary name, but I might be in a very small > group of people that would actually use it. We had the constraint of not blowing up the size of the repository catalogue, even for a repo containing all the packages you could generate from the ports tree. The lists of files and directories in the pkg were a large blob of stuff that we couldn't see a presssing need for, so they got dropped. The filesite.txz stuff is all about automatically detecting package conflicts -- not sure exactly what the plans are around doing that at some point in the future. However, if you've got a good use case for having this metadata available then we can certainly revisit all this. Mind you, if you have a repository you control, it wouldn't be that difficult to script up something that would extract the +METADATA from each of the pkg files in the repo as a postprocessing thing during repo updates, and make it available for your app to pull down off the web. If anyone wants a nice web-based project, it would be pretty cool to be able to point a browser at the repository root and be able to explore package content / metadata all nicely formatted to be human readable. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 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