pkg 1.5.0 is out

finid at vivaldi.net finid at vivaldi.net
Tue Apr 14 22:04:56 UTC 2015


Awesome job!

Looking forward to 1.6 to see what support for "Linux package backend" 
will be like.



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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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