pkg feature request

[Mike Clarke]

On Wednesday, 12 August 2020 05:05:17 BST Tatsuki Makino wrote:

> But it seems to be a mixture of various revisions because poudriere is
> building it.
> svnlite up -q -r COMMITTED $PORTSDIR/category/name seems to be a
> revision of the package when it was built.

What would be needed would be for pkg to provide the revision number of the ports tree used by 
poudriere at the time of the build, not the revision of each individual port. For example for 12.1-
RELEASE amd64 http://beefy6.nyi.freebsd.org/jail.html?mastername=121amd64-default[1] shows 
that at the time of writing this email the latest completed build is 544349 and there is a build run in 
progress for 544776. If this revision number could be stored as a property of the repository then 
pkg could have a command (e.g. 'pkg revno') which would currently return 544349. After the 
current build has completed and propagated to the repository then 'pkg revno' would return 
544776 after the next time I run 'pkg update'.

I'm already using a manual version of this process. If today I needed to build one of the few ports 
for which I don't use packages I would get the revision number of the latest poudriere build and run 
'svnlite up -q -r 544349 /usr/ports' to sync my ports tree with the version used for the repository. 
Providing I allow enough time for the new build to be transferred to the FreeBSD repository before 
doing this it works fine. It would, of course, be much better if I could obtain the revision number of 
the repository directly from pkg.

The real icing on the cake would be to have a command 'pkg sync-ports' which would use the 
revision information to upgrade the ports tree in one go without needing to manually run svn.

-- 
Mike Clarke

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[1] http://beefy6.nyi.freebsd.org/jail.html?mastername=121amd64-default