Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:21:45 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PKGNG: ability to view pkg-plist? Message-ID: <526C3269.8080003@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <526B0156.1010004@pcbsd.org> References: <526AA934.10405@pcbsd.org> <526AEB3A.3020004@FreeBSD.org> <526B0156.1010004@pcbsd.org>
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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. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --09kcNwjgxULcqgm0vXfc9tf7rVWxnwB7J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.20 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJSbDJwXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ2NTNBNjhCOTEzQTRFNkNGM0UxRTEzMjZC QjIzQUY1MThFMUE0MDEzAAoJELsjr1GOGkATlrkP/R13ZVocAtXBsdDQIpKAJ7z1 SQJX+c92ZS1qKRGFHvCX/fbyJsQRozv2ClmI37SxMNKXJfGzs0XpiOhiEZK5q5n2 iV7PzSHbTLfw6ksXH+G51U+HOH4/gPZpQpMV9hfiN43/AicZIoiextcBKMiPvEsc HcNPTPtP74d1hljTy+47mzuEKBRLwEO5tDatDGwtc5Rr/HRsXdJGhBsyWrYLlMdu RSOgATQfEdfPQ9TCH9J3lrQD18MhUPDEm4vm1/0lp4UWB2gKqoUwwlImc1B7lIis BT4yPeWP9lIY4pGi5gdBTo8Hehi/6QIgVVTpSbnGkq3MKTxEeps+u7ZwlGbz1Ade j4KVmYFvAtVGYko4UvmFC3kablbpQoR78RHgxhBmgwnDk4ZBvxyYqXACn/eXONja ZO2a18YjDQY8NFfNtK8ISwvAZdy/T3h0qHj7Fb0v4NrS3TD7uK2HgayQrjp9BNz9 MbIPtsbHoRO/ceCdFeXpuxsb4ry9mabF05Bm/DFTPHi/GPBG8hyUsD0kGYgXsX/h YQSnULUOEJxi9IQanl4HtBdS3pX0dhPeargSrxg+kqqtTRT7jJ/TpOF9aMWkO4HV lUME2i4MDFCw/0TczzcQlO76VdJvXA67w0y2GA4A0aPVCrydVut0T6XHIf+fX0n7 VoMbBMd9heslArqJen+p =LF3o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --09kcNwjgxULcqgm0vXfc9tf7rVWxnwB7J--
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