Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 15:09:29 +0000 (UTC) From: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r46146 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201501061509.t06F9Tx1058532@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: brd Date: Tue Jan 6 15:09:28 2015 New Revision: 46146 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46146 Log: Add the pkg(8) report. Specify that the Vagrant images are for VMware and VirtualBox Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Tue Jan 6 14:20:18 2015 (r46145) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2014-10-2014-12.xml Tue Jan 6 15:09:28 2015 (r46146) @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ <body> <p>We have developed a recipe to use Packer to create FreeBSD Vagrant - images.</p> + images to run on VMware and VirtualBox.</p> <p><a href="https://www.packer.io/">Packer</a>; is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single @@ -268,4 +268,53 @@ </body> </project> + <project cat="proj"> + <title>pkg(8)</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name>The pkg team</name> + + <email>pkg@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="https://github.com/freebsd/pkg"/>; + </links> + + <body> + <p>The package development team has released <tt>pkg(8)</tt> 1.4. + This release fixes lots of bugs and adds some new features: + <ul> + <li>Stricter checking of the path passed via the plist</li> + <li>Change in the ABI to be closer to MACHINE_ARCH</li> + <li>Add three-way merge functionnality</li> + <li>Add conservative upgrade support for multi repository configurations</li> + <li>Multirepository priority</li> + </ul> + </p> + + <p>An important part of the development direction for the 1.4 + release has been done on stabilizing the existing features, and + improving the <tt>pkg(8)</tt> experience on small/embedded + machines (reduce memory usage, speed up operations).</p> + + <p><tt>pkg(8)</tt> is not only the &os; Package Manager, but the + Package Manager for DragonflyBSD. Additionally support has been + added to build <tt>pkg(8)</tt> on OS X and Linux. This work + will allow other Operating Systems the option of adopting + <tt>pkg(8)</tt> to manage their packages and bring new + developers into the project.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Add more regression tests</task> + <task>Package FreeBSD base</task> + <task>Allow using mtree as a plist when creating a package</task> + <task>Implement flexible dependencies</task> + <task>Test the developement branch</task> + <task>More developers are needed, check the Issues on Github</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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