[CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 11 13:21:04 UTC 2016


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 04:10:56PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 01:05:11PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 05:35:59PM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
> > > On 8 Mar 2016, at 15:14, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw at zxy.spb.ru> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > In terms of comparing packages, if you’re doing that visually then you are likely to have problems anyway, unless your eyes and brain work far better than most humans.  We can make that much easier by providing libxo output in pkg and allowing you to have a simple jq script that tells you what the differences are.
> > > 
> > pkg can already expose the entire content of a package in json or ucl via:
> > $ pkg info --raw --raw-format [json|json-conpact|yaml|ucl] name
> 
> Exposing  the entire content of a package is not a root of cause.
> Question in comapring of two different setup with different behaviour
> and search cause of difference.
> 
> Case of only a few monolitic packages is essentiality simple then case
> of 1000 combined packages.
pkg info -a on one diff with pkg info -a on the other
for the full content: pkg info -a --raw on both end and diff them.

That should cover your case, no?

Bapt


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