svn commit: r46572 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Fri Apr 17 03:46:30 UTC 2015

Author: brd
Date: Fri Apr 17 03:46:29 2015
New Revision: 46572
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/46572

Log:
  Add the pkg(8) report from bapt

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Fri Apr 17 02:36:42 2015	(r46571)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-01-2015-03.xml	Fri Apr 17 03:46:29 2015	(r46572)
@@ -2548,4 +2548,92 @@ WITHOUT_FORTH=y</pre>
       </task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat="proj">
+    <title>pkg</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Baptiste</given>
+	  <common>Daroussin</common>
+	</name>
+
+	<email>bapt at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Vsevolod</given>
+	  <common>Stakhov</common>
+	</name>
+
+	<email>az at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Andrej</given>
+	  <common>Zverev</common>
+	</name>
+
+	<email>as at FreeBSD.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://github.com/freebsd/pkg">pkg's Github Repo</url>
+      <url href="https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkg">The pkg Mailing List</url>
+
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>Lots of work has been done on the pkg(8) front, that brought
+	pkg(8) to the 1.5.0 release.</p>
+
+      <p>Special attention has been spent on the test suite, the
+	number of tests went from around 20 to more than 70. Mostly
+	functional tests. Each test can in fact test many different
+	features.</p>
+
+      <p>One of the main highlights is initial support for
+	provides/requires has been implemented, while it is still
+	simple, it is good enough to allow fixing lot of situation when
+	dealing with php related ports: able to safely upgrade from one
+	major version to another.  This allows for the pecl/pear
+	packages to be reinstalled each time a minor php upgrade is
+	done.</p>
+
+      <p>Some pkg internals have been reworked to allow cross installation
+	of packages without the need for chroot(2) or jail(2) calls.</p>
+
+      <p>The plist and keyword parser have been improved to keep simplifying
+	creating new ports:</p>
+	<ul>
+	  <li>Keywords can now have arguments</li>
+	  <li>Lazy mode available for setting credentials via the
+	    plist</li>
+	  <li>Flags (immutable and others) can now be specified in
+	    plist</li>
+	</ul>
+
+       <p>pkg now support fetch resume for http/ftp</p>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>
+	<p>Populate the ports tree with provides/requires</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Make all script in ports cross installation friendly</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Improve provides/requires</p>
+      </task>
+
+      <task>
+	<p>Continue adding more tests</p>
+      </task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
