Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 10:30:59 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske@fisglobal.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, "current@FreeBSD.org" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] No more pkg_install on HEAD by default Message-ID: <51E26FD3.4020208@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FC4E0D@ltcfiswmsgmb21> References: <20130712231637.GS85556@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FC2DBD@ltcfiswmsgmb21> <20130713080732.GV85556@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FC3AA2@ltcfiswmsgmb21> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FC3C92@ltcfiswmsgmb21> <CA%2B7WWSe7C2UXAsEX3OZH7nPJJbxotpQ_iYBxgake4R68sbUtLA@mail.gmail.com> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FC3FAA@ltcfiswmsgmb21> <CAGE5yCoH2auer_kKpUT_caFUZPpVM5TdAFH5tJcGgF4Ji12f0g@mail.gmail.com> <13CA24D6AB415D428143D44749F57D7201FC4E0D@ltcfiswmsgmb21>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) ------enig2UXUFXREROJBCALBTEAXG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 14/07/2013 06:48, Teske, Devin wrote: > Question: Where can I learn more about the actual format of what's in > the new tarballs? This is going to be important not for bsdconfig, > but $work (we have our own build platform; I'm going to have to > rewrite it from mastering PLIST files to mastering YAML MANIFEST > files and I want to know all the gritty details). We do need a pkg-manifest(5) man page, which can double as a pkg-tarball(5) page since the manifest file is where most of the interesting bits are. A pkg tarball is a compressed tar archive like so: lucid-nonsense:...cache/pkg/All:% tar -tvf pkg-1.1.4.txz -rw-r--r-- 0 root wheel 530 Jan 1 1970 +COMPACT_MANIFEST -rw-r--r-- 0 root wheel 6385 Jan 1 1970 +MANIFEST -rw-r--r-- 0 root wheel 17567 Jan 1 1970 +MTREE_DIRS -r--r--r-- 0 root wheel 19453 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/_pkg.bash -r-xr-xr-x 0 root wheel 629 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/400.status-pkg -r-xr-xr-x 0 root wheel 823 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/411.pkg-backup -r-xr-xr-x 0 root wheel 678 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/490.status-pkg-changes -r-xr-xr-x 0 root wheel 2558 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/410.pkg-audit -r-xr-xr-x 0 root wheel 611 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/etc/periodic/security/460.pkg-checksum -r--r--r-- 0 root wheel 839 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.sample -r--r--r-- 0 root wheel 43432 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/include/pkg.h -r--r--r-- 0 root wheel 727558 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/lib/libpkg.a lrwxr-xr-x 0 root wheel 0 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/lib/libpkg.so -> libpkg.so.1 -r--r--r-- 0 root wheel 1227064 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/lib/libpkg.so.= 1 -rw-r--r-- 0 root wheel 187 Jul 7 12:26 /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/pkg.pc [... etc ...] There must at least be a +MANIFEST -- other meta data files are optional. +COMPACT_MANIFEST is a subset of the full +MANIFEST. They're both YAML documents. +COMPACT_MANIFEST looks like this, for example: --- name: pkg version: 1.1.4 origin: ports-mgmt/pkg comment: New generation package manager arch: freebsd:9:x86:64 www: http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng maintainer: portmgr@FreeBSD.org prefix: /usr/local licenselogic: single licenses: - BSD flatsize: 6311507 desc: | New Generation package management tool for FreeBSD WWW: http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng categories: - ports-mgmt shlibs_required: - libpkg.so.1 shlibs_provided: - libpkg.so.1 message: | If you are upgrading from the old package format, first run: # pkg2ng +MTREE_DIRS is a compatibility thing with the old pkg_tools. It's not needed in general as +MANIFEST can provide all that meta data itself. It isn't going to be deprecated for at least as long as the ports tree continues to support pkg_tools though. Beyond that, the rest of the pkg tarball just contains a tar archive of all the files, directories, sym-links etc to be installed by the package. Note that pkg(8) has no problem with creating an empty directory for a package, unlike pkg_tools. Now, while you can grovel through the details of pkg tarballs and internal data formats like this, be aware: the format of the manifest and the details of the meta-data included in the pkg-tarballs is subject to change without warning as we develop pkg(8) further. We only promise API stability through the pkg(8) commands or for the libpkg.so library functions; reports of breakage from usage outside those APIs will receive little sympathy. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey ------enig2UXUFXREROJBCALBTEAXG 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 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHib9MACgkQ8Mjk52CukIyf4ACdGb7Oik3jYlO2kx0prlCpHx2T twIAnjhOaHxL6G1se3F9ilhUTALQftXE =qweq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------enig2UXUFXREROJBCALBTEAXG--
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