git: ec2764d5ec49 - main - Mk/bsd.port.mk: prepare the land for pkg 1.17

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 21 14:39:12 UTC 2021


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


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