pkgbase and interim freebsd builds

Mel Pilgrim list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Wed Aug 10 22:50:24 UTC 2016


On 2016-08-10 06:24, krad wrote:
> true its not elegant though is it, as ultimately it will want to be
> integrated into a standard patching schedule. I just want to make sure i'm
> not missing something, or its just in the pipeline. Maybe the svn revision
> number could be embedded into the package version ?

The build date is appended to the version number:

# pkg info -xf FreeBSD-kernel
FreeBSD-kernel-generic-12.0.s20160726192118
Name           : FreeBSD-kernel-generic
Version        : 12.0.s20160726192118
Installed on   : Tue Jul 26 20:21:48 2016 UTC
Origin         : base
Architecture   : freebsd:12:x86:64
Prefix         : /
Categories     : base
Licenses       : BSD2CLAUSE
Maintainer     : re at FreeBSD.org
WWW            : https://www.FreeBSD.org
Comment        : FreeBSD GENERIC kernel
Annotations    :
         repo_type      : binary
         repository     : FreeBSD-base
Flat size      : 108MiB
Description    :
FreeBSD GENERIC kernel


Is this not the case in 11-stable?

> On 10 August 2016 at 13:54, Henry Vogt <henry.vogt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 10.08.16 um 14:21 schrieb krad:
>>> Hi, I am currently testing pkgbase on a few jails and have setup my own
>>> repo for the base OS package files. This is working fine at a certain
>>> level
>>> however I have noticed if i do an interim build of freebsd 11-stable from
>>> svn, the base packages dont get updated via pkgbase even though the repo
>>> files have newly build packages. I'm guess this is because the version of
>>> the packages currently is 11.0, so nothing will get updated until they
>>> are
>>> bumped to 11.1. Is there any way to modify this behaviour so that interim
>>> builds are captured, as I mostly do weekly builds of stable?
>>>
>>
>> You can always force a re-install using
>>
>> pkg -f -r <your_repo>
>>
>> Best
>> Henry


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