From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 02:20:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DDF5E8C7; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 02:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "vps1.elischer.org", Issuer "CA Cert Signing Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 937481174; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 02:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from julian-mbp3.pixel8networks.com (50-196-156-133-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.196.156.133]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s822KsDZ018211 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 1 Sep 2014 19:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <54052981.7010502@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:20:49 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sam Fourman Jr." , Michelle Sullivan Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, pkg@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin , stable@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 02:20:57 -0000 On 9/1/14, 6:39 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> And for the portsnap users? >> >> > In short, this change doesn't directly effect portsnap users. > > Portsnap is a tool that used to obtain a copy of the ports tree. > > Portsnap is only one way, another way to get a copy of the ports tree is by > using subversion and checking it out by using the svn command. > > pkg(8) is a package management tool, and to make use of most packages > having a copy of the ports tree is not required. But it is if you don't want the options that a pkg is built with. We need to do a lot of pkg munging for that reason, generating our own versions (which is ok, that's not a complaint, just a fact of life). I've warmed to pkg after using it a bit, and many of its initial shortcomings have been fixed. But one thing I'd like to request (a very minor thing).. Could the packing list have some newlines inserted into it to make it more humanly readable? Our old tools for auditing and controlling (old style) packages would print out that information. The new tools we need to write will need to do similar. We did an experiment at work here and wrote a small script that parsed it and then rewrote it back to the package with newlines added and pkg handled it just fine, so it should be a very minor thing to add some newlines when generating it in the first place. I don't think anything else needs to be changed. > >> >> -- >> Michelle Sullivan >> http://www.mhix.org/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >