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Date:      Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:44:21 -0700
From:      Nick Rogers <ncrogers@gmail.com>
To:        "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   pkgng "requirements" script equivalent
Message-ID:  <CAKOb=YYW1DHSJA=HGM7Js8-hShmNCx6XjtMPg7rPkGcCytv5-A@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello,

I am in the process of upgrading some proprietary software that has always
been deployed via a "custom" package created by the old pkg_create. So far
I've been able to use "pkg create" to achieve what I want, but it seems
that the "requirements" script is no longer a part of the new pkg
framework. This used to be a script that you could include with a package
that could halt the pkg add or remove process by returning a non-zero exit
code from the script. I've been using it with the old pkg tools as a way to
enforce some proprietary requirements logic that goes beyond requiring
certain pkg dependencies, architecture, etc. One example is to make sure a
specific custom kernel is running by analyzing uname output.

I am wondering if anyone has a suggestion as to how to interrupt the pkg
add process in a similar way. It looks like the "requirements" script has
been removed entirely, and from what I can tell a failure in the
pre-install script does not halt pkg add.

Thanks.

-Nick



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