Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:52:01 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: ec2764d5ec49 - main - Mk/bsd.port.mk: prepare the land for pkg 1.17 Message-ID: <20210721145201.5jcynsooy4hva7ir@aniel.nours.eu> In-Reply-To: <YPgxkAglZ2GRunni@FreeBSD.org> References: <202107211223.16LCNDjf070492@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <YPgxkAglZ2GRunni@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 02:39:12PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:23:13PM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > commit ec2764d5ec4933f52cb0718663f60f1e1b1eed7f > > > > Mk/bsd.port.mk: prepare the land for pkg 1.17 > > > > in next version of pkg, we now use a uniq extension: '.pkg' > > whatever the compression is > > What's the rationale behind this decision, if I may ask? Particularly, > what problem does it solve? Those of us who use custom PKGSUFFIX=.tbz, > for example, -- how hard would it be to keep existing setup or adjust? > > ./danfe TL;DR be able to switch compression format seamlessly for end users. Each time we had to change compression format, we have to modify plenty of tools which either hardcode. We have added a new compression format recently zstd and we want to be able to allow people to seamlessly switch to it. I plan to switch the default compression format for FreeBSD 14 and probably FreeBSD 13 to zstd. Basically we want to have the compression format (gzip, bzip2, etc.) et archive format (tar archive) an implementation detail (no changes are planned as of today about the archive format don't worry about it :D). On the other end I would really want to know what is the rationale for using .tbz in 2021 :D Best regards, Bapt
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