Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:04:32 -0500 From: finid@vivaldi.net To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: pkg@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg 1.5.0 is out Message-ID: <c1a7b2df87b58900ec17a9d1cd594539@vivaldi.net> In-Reply-To: <20150414215417.GH39658@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20150414215417.GH39658@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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Awesome job! Looking forward to 1.6 to see what support for "Linux package backend" will be like. -- finid On 2015-04-14 16:54, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hi all, > > Final pkg 1.5.0 has been released. > > What happened since pkg 1.4.0: > - Initial provides/requires support > - Lots of new regression tests have been added > - Initial support for OS X > - Initial support for NetBSD/EdgeBSD > - Update most of the bundled third party software has been updated to > their > latest version > - Improve the messages reported by pkg > - Properly support file flags > - Implement argument support for custom keywords > - Extend setting credential via plist to allow to set file flags > - Make credential syntax via plist more flexible allow to only defines > the first > - pkg updating now supports case insensitive matching > - pkg create now support a verbose mode > - Add an option to change the default on question, until now the > default answer > was "No" with that option set it would be "Yes" > - Lots of fixes to pkg audit -r > - Global memory usage reduction and speed up > - Improvements and cleanup on pkg alias > - pkg annotate --show --all has been fixed > - Make pkg.h C++ friendly > - Lots of improvements in the solver > - Lots of fixes on 32 bits platforms > - Add support for: pkg create -M ./plop.ucl -p ./plop.plist > - New pkg -r <rootdir> that will install in the given rootdir without > chrooting > - Export PKG_ROOTDIR to scripts allow to make them as portable as > possible > - Stop trying to remove all installed package with the argument of pkg > delete is > a local file > - Be more explicit about why the solver it going to reinstall, remove > or upgrade > (when possible) > - Plenty of bug fixes > - Plenty of new bugs > - pkg shlibs now support -q > - pkg lock gained a new --has-locked-packages option > - pkg now resumes fetch if possible > - CONSERVATIVE_UPGRADE is now on by default > - pkg alias now have a -l argument to list aliases > - A sample pkg.conf is now installed with a bunch of aliases set by > default > - Fix the backup script to properly export an sql which will be > importable via > pkg shell and/or sqlite out of box > > I would like to thank anyone that has been contributing to pkg to make > this > release happen (via code, bug report, feature request, testing and > documentation) > > For pkg 1.6.0 among other things and depending on the time, here is > what we do > plan to work on: > - Safe cherry-picking of upgrades (aka: pkg upgrade something) > - New context dependant messages: > * messages that only appears during upgrades > * messages that only appears on deinstall > * messages that only appears on install > - Extend provides/requires to support flexible dependencies > - Linux package backend (?) > - Allow multiple versions of a given package in a repo > - Add more regression tests > - Improve documentation > - <please add here you personal ideas> > > Best regards, > Bapt
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